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A Book of Silence

By Sara Maitland

Book information

Publisher
Granta Books
Year
2009
ISBN
1847081517, 9781847081513
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
389 kB (397938 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
320\0
Time added
2017-03-30 05:39:18
Fitness & DietingMemoirs;Biographies & Memoirs;Mental Health;Anxiet

Description

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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