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 a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven 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 moor in Galloway, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. "A Book of Silence" is a deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.
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September 2009 : Hardback
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November 2008 : Hardback
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August 2010 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Paperback
| Title: A Book of Silence Author(s): Sara Maitland ISBN: 1-84708-151-7 / 9781847081513 (UK edition) Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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