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At the Center of All Beauty - Solitude and the Creative Life (Hardcover)
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At the Center of All Beauty - Solitude and the Creative Life (Hardcover)
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Whether seeking more time for solitude or suffering what seems a
surfeit of it, readers will find the best of companions here.
Fenton Johnson's 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 Cezanne (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 they've left behind
illuminating Fenton Johnson's 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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