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A Book Of Silence

By Sara Maitland

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A Book Of Silence

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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 and the Australian bush and on the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence told 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2009-08-03
Publication Date:
2009-08-03
Publisher:
Granta Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847081517
ISBN13:
9781847081513
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
242 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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