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Description:Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not “single”—meaningless outside of coupledom—but “solitary,” able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate “fortress marriage,” turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening. Johnson taps into an older tradition embodied by Trappist monks near the Kentucky home where he grew up, and by artists and writers including Paul Cézanne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Rod McKuen, Nina Simone, and Bill Cunningham. Johnson includes his parents, who in workshop or garden found places to be alone; married people, too, can be solitaries in spirit.A hybrid of memoir, inspiration, social criticism, and celebration of the lives of great solitary artists, 'AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY' will resonate with anyone needing a break from the clamor of “society.”RUNNING TIME ➼ 7hrs. and 53mins.©2020 Fenton Johnson (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life. To get started finding At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Release: 2020

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Description: Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not “single”—meaningless outside of coupledom—but “solitary,” able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate “fortress marriage,” turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening. Johnson taps into an older tradition embodied by Trappist monks near the Kentucky home where he grew up, and by artists and writers including Paul Cézanne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Rod McKuen, Nina Simone, and Bill Cunningham. Johnson includes his parents, who in workshop or garden found places to be alone; married people, too, can be solitaries in spirit.A hybrid of memoir, inspiration, social criticism, and celebration of the lives of great solitary artists, 'AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY' will resonate with anyone needing a break from the clamor of “society.”RUNNING TIME ➼ 7hrs. and 53mins.©2020 Fenton Johnson (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life. To get started finding At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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