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In a series of essays, an acclaimed novelist delves deeply into the spiritual life, reflecting on ascetism in the works of Lao Tzu, the Desert Fathers, Wordsworth, Thoreau, and others. 30,000 first printing.
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From St. Anthony to J.D. Salinger, hermits and recluses have helped the rest of us learn how to live in the bustle of the world. That paradox is the subject of A Pelican in the Wilderness, a sprawling exploration of solitariness by the novelist Isabel Colegate. The book contains a dazzling array of anecdotes and quotations drawn from sources including Howard Hughes, Lao Tzu, and Henry David Thoreau. Colegate's Merchant-Ivory prose gets a bit thick at times ("Autumn is a good time to see the gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire"), a rankling reminder that willed exile is often made possible by economic privilege. But it's a great pleasure to ramble with the author through varied wisdom about a place that exists in everyone's heart, the small strip of territory between solitude and loneliness where peace is easily found, and easily lost. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Isabel Colegate is the author of thirteen previous books, including, most recently, Winter Journey (Counterpoint 2001). She lives near Bath, England.
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- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1582431213
- ISBN 13 9781582431215
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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