Drinking the Rain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780865476974)

A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author

At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again.

In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life.

"A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman's honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives." --San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

Author: Alix Shulman
ISBN-10: 0865476977
ISBN-13: 9780865476974
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2004
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2007 pg. 133