Drinking the Rain [A Memoir].
by Alix Kates Shulman
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0374144036
- ISBN 13
- 9780374144036
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. Hardcover First Edition (1995), so stated. First Edition (1995), so stated. Very Near Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: The Book shows only a minute crimp to the heel of the backstrip; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single, unobtrusive flaw. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'.The DJ shows sun-blanching to the peach-toned background field of the backstrip (the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible); a very faint crease near the top of the front panel; the price is unclipped. Attractive and intact, showing minor imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.85 x 0.85 inches). 242 pages. Language: English. Weight: 15 ouncesk. Hardback with DJ. Alix Kates Shulman (born 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972), hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement." A feminist classic, it is the coming-of-age story, from childhood through motherhood, of middle-class, white, sexually precocious and emotionally-confused protagonist Sasha Davis, as she navigates the pressures, discrimination, and absurdities facing a pre-feminist mid-20th-century young woman of ambition.In the 1990s Shulman turned from fiction to memoir. Drinking the Rain recounts her experience of going off at age fifty to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine, without electricity, plumbing, road, or phone. As she is thrown back on herself, she learns to love solitude, independence, and the natural world. Drinking the Rain won a 1995 Body Mind Spirit Award of Excellence and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 56129
- Title
- Drinking the Rain [A Memoir].
- Author
- Alix Kates Shulman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (1995), so stated.
- ISBN 10
- 0374144036
- ISBN 13
- 9780374144036
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1995.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Authors and Writers; Biography; Autobiography: S-Z; Women's Studies; Women's Sexuality; Women's Spirituality;
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