The Collected Memoirs Volume One: Fifty Days of Solitude, The Pleasure of Their Company, and Extra Innings

Three memoirs about isolation, aging, and death from an author whose "private self is as intelligent and generous as her public persona" (Publishers Weekly).
Fifty Days of Solitude: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with true solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. A New York Times Notable Book, the result is a "quiet, elegantly written" recollection about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms...