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ISBN: 0679407774

ISBN13: 9780679407775

Migrations to Solitude

Name: Essays on Solitude
Item: Migrations to Solitude
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By Sue Halpern

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Book Overview

Profoundly original essays from the author of Summer Hours at the Robbers Library about the nature of solitude and privacy in a culture where ourlaws, technology, and lifestyles are increasingly chipping away at them both. Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed-or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are chipping it away? These are some of the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is thefirst-and perhaps the most essential-thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only to the routes of solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0679407774

ISBN13:9780679407775

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:Pantheon Books

Length:213 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Rated 5 stars
Essays on Solitude

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 2, 2009

This book is comprised of thoughtful essays all dealing with the theme of solitude. Solitude is examined from varies perspectives and environments - a hospital inten- sive care unit, a homeless shelter, high-tech spy operations and a Buddhist Monas- tery. I highly recommend this book.

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Beautifully written and enduring book

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 14, 2007

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Migrations to Solitude and I recommend the book for its subject matter, which is the quest for privacy in a crowded world. The book is divided into 12 "profoundly original" essays that have a common thread of a spiritual journey. I felt very much connected to the author while reading the book and I didn't want the book to end. The book was published in 1992 prior to the current invasion of privacy...

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