Fifty Days of Solitude

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A New York Times Notable Book

Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach made up our minds to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to someone for fifty days. The result is a gorgeous meditation about what it means to write, to be by myself, and to come to terms with mortality.
When her companion Sylvia left for an extended book-buying travel, Doris Grumbach was once given 50 days by myself of their home at the coast of Maine. It was once the winter of 1993 and the 75-year-old Grumbach surrounded herself with silence and music, with books and an empty journal, with paintings and the view out her window of a bare winter landscape. Fifty Days of Solitude is a memoir of what Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins referred to as the “inscape”: the deep, meandering landscape of an interior life. Grumbach’s observations in regards to the paintings of Edward Hopper, the death of a friend from AIDS, and the life-long grief of Dr. Anna Perkins for her companion Miss Hannay are full of dignity and pathos. Fifty Days of Solitude is a rendering of the mind and heart by myself, of how distance and silence inform our compassion and intellect.

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