Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place

P4 - A first edition hardcover book SIGNED by Susan Wittig Albert and also SIGNED by Steven L. Davis on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Steven L. Davis, Editor. 9.5"x6.5", 183 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

From Publisher:

What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and writing partner, Bill Albert.

Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance—a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude.

Product Info

ISBN: 0292719701

ISBN-13: 9780292719705

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Year: 2009

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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