In these pages Shulman has bestowed a gift on readers who may never be able, or willing, to nibble a dandelion leaf or gather mussels from a cove, a testament to the idea that less is more. AUSTIN CHRONICLEĪdd Alix Kates Shulman to the list of national treasuers. Drinking the Rain is about conquering fear of deprivation, of old age, of being alone. But it is her descriptions of the changing seasons within herself that raise the memoir to the level of numinous. Without plumbing, power, or a telephone, and foraging for wild greens and shellfish, she faced challenges that helped redefine her notions of independence and courage, confidence and creativity. Shulman's descriptions of nature are luminous, leaping from page to mind with the strength of simplicity. At 50, Alix Shulman left a life dense with political activism, family and literary community and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. 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. every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery. 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. Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that. The reader, even the most citified, is carried along as Shulman lives each day. THE NEW YORK TIMESĪ thoughtful, lyrical memoir. The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society. 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.
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
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