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At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

English

By (author): Fenton Johnson

Whether seeking more time for solitude or suffering what seems a surfeit of it, readers will find the best of companions here. Fenton Johnsons lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion, common in his Roman Catholic childhood, that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at Walden Pond and Emily Dickinson in Amherst, to Bill Cunningham photographing the streets of New York; from Cézanne (married, but solitary nonetheless) painting Mont Sainte-Victoire over and over again, to the fiercely self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. Each character portrait is full of intense detail, the bright wakes theyve left behind illuminating Fenton Johnsons own journey from his childhood in the backwoods of Kentucky to his travels alone throughout the world and the people he has lost and found along the way.

Combining memoir, social criticism, and devoted research, At the Center of All Beauty will resonate with solitaries and with anyone who might wish to carve out more space for solitude.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 366g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393608298

About Fenton Johnson

Fenton Johnson is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. He teaches at Spalding University contributes to Harpers magazine and has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He lives in San Francisco California and Tucson Arizona.

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