At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the Maine coast. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found to her astonishment that she was learning to live all over again, discovering capacities for thought, feeling, and sensual delight that she had never imagined before. Her transforming summer experiences were only the beginning, though. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path - as she learned to celebrate the joys of meditative solitude, and to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life.

Drinking the Rain: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

SHULMAN, Alix Kates

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

Twenty-five years after its initial publication, this landmark book continues to fascinate readers with a frank, sardonic look at one woman's intellectual and sexual awakening. Reprint.

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Group USA

Memoirs of an Ex-prom Queen

Genre Fiction

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon

As strains appear in her marriage and her two children grow up, Rosemary Streeter reexamines her attitudes towards love and fulfillment

In Every Woman's Life

Ballantine Books

Reflecting a newly discovered delight with life, a memoir beginning on an island off the coast of Maine and ranging as far as Budapest chronicles a journey toward spiritual discipline and liberation

Drinking the Rain

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

A personal story of crisis, commitment, and hope from the best-selling author of Memoirs of An Ex-Prom Queen One day it happens, the dreaded thing that will change your life forever, the more dreadful because, though you’ve half expected it, you don’t know what form it will take or when it will come, and whether or not you will rise to the challenge. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m. on a coastal Maine island in a remote seaside cabin with no electricity, running water, or road to reach it—where the very isolation that makes it a perfect artist’s retreat renders it as risky as life itself. She woke to find that her beloved seventy-five-year-old husband had fallen the nine feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below, naked and deathly still. Though Scott would survive, he suffered an injury that left him seriously brain impaired. He was the same—but not the same. Each of us has imagined with dread the occurrence of just such an event outside our control that will permanently alter the course of our lives. In this elegant memoir, Shulman describes life on the other side: the ongoing anxieties and risks—and surprising rewards—she experiences as she reorganizes her world and her priorities to care for her husband and discovers that what might have seemed a grim life sentence to some has evolved into something unexpectedly rich.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen created a profound impact on the cultural landscape when it was originally published in 1972. A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class, Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, the novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo but which were ultimately accepted as matters of major political significance: sexual harassment, job discrimination, the sexual double standard, rape, abortion restrictions, the double binds of marriage and motherhood, and the frantic quest for beauty. 
The book went on to sell more than a million copies and is regarded today as a classic, one of the first and best pieces of fiction born of the women's liberation movement. With many of its concerns still with us today, this witty and devastating novel continues to resonate with readers, and Sasha Davis has proved herself a prom queen for the ages.

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen: A Novel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

One day it happens: the dreaded event that will change your life forever. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened in a remote seaside cabin on a coastal Maine island―where the very isolation that makes for a perfect artist's retreat can also put life at risk. Shulman woke to find that her beloved husband had fallen the nine feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below, deathly still. Though Scott would survive, he suffered an injury that left him seriously brain impaired. He was the same―but not the same.
In this elegant memoir, Shulman describes the ongoing anxieties and risks―and surprising rewards―she experiences as she reorganizes her world to care for her husband and discovers that what might have seemed a life sentence to some has evolved into something unexpectedly rich.

United States

Picador

1978 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover, Alix Kates Shulman (Red Emma Speaks). A woman who calls herself Zane IndiAnna moves in the 1950s from the Midwest to New York to join the Beats and, in the following two tumultuous decades, finds her life intertwined with the birth and growth of the women's liberation movement.

Burning questions: A novel

Alfred.A. Knopf

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Drinking the Rain: A Memoir

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Memoirs of an Ex-prom Queen

In Every Woman's Life

Drinking the Rain

To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen: A Novel

To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen: A Novel

Burning questions: A novel