The Collected Memoirs Volume One

Three memoirs about isolation, aging, and death from an author whose “private self is as intelligent and generous as her public persona” ( Publishers Weekly ). Fifty Days of Solitude : Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with true solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. A New York Times Notable Book, the result is a “quiet, elegantly written” recollection about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms