num_pages: 128
description: A New York Times Notable BookFaced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.
language: English
title: Fifty Days of Solitude
titlecomplete: Fifty Days of Solitude
genres: Memoir, Nature, Philosophy, Essays, Biography Memoir, Spirituality, Lesbian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 320
publisher: Beacon Press