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

Title: At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
Author: Fenton Johnson
Memoir: 1699568
ISBN: 9780393541441
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion 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 Dickenson in Amherst, to the fiercely self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. The bright wakes these figures have left behind illuminate Fenton Johnson's journey from his childhood in rural Kentucky to his solitary travels in America, France, and India. Woven into his musings about better-known solitaries are stories of friends and family he has lost and found along the way."