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At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, writer of *Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen*, abandoned her city life of political activism, family, and literary community for solitude on a windswept island off Maine’s coast. Living in a cabin without plumbing, power or telephone, she rediscovered capacities for thought, feeling and sensual delight that surprised her. The book chronicles her transformative summer, her celebration of meditative solitude, and how she reintroduced those insights into a hectic, committed mainland existence.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Alix Kates Shulman
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