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A book of silence: a journey in search of the pleasures and powers of silence

By Sara , Maitland

Book information

Publisher
Granta & Portobello Books
ISBN
9781847082909, 1847082904
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1161921 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The critically acclaimed memoir of a search for silence that achieved a surprise success much noisier than its subject ... After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated Scottish moor, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home.

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