Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

by Sue Halpern

Book Overview

Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed--or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679742417
• ISBN13: 9780679742418
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Essays on Solitude

This book is comprised of thoughtful essays all dealing with the theme of solitude. Solitude is examined from varies perspectives and environments - a hospital inten- sive care unit, a homeless shelter, high-tech spy operations and a Buddhist Monas- tery. I highly recommend this book.

Beautifully written and enduring book

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Migrations to Solitude and I recommend the book for its subject matter, which is the quest for privacy in a crowded world. The book is divided into 12 "profoundly original" essays that have a common thread of a spiritual journey. I felt very much connected to the author while reading the book and I didn't want the book to end. The book was published in 1992 prior to the current invasion of privacy by the present administration. I wonder what Helperin would have written if she knew the invasiveness of Big Brother in our lives today. A quest for Solitude today might be impossible now in our society and all of the places of solitudes are perhaps gone for ever like the Dodo bird.