Fifty days of solitude

By Doris Grumbach

Subjects: Maine, social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Women authors, Biography, Intellectual life, Maine, biography, Large type books, 20th century, American Novelists, Solitude, New York Times reviewed, Social life and customs, Novelists, American

Description: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.