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446th out of 556 books
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492 voters
A New Kind of Country
Novelist Dorothy Gilman, author of the bestselling Mrs. Pollifax series, had reached a point of no return in her life. With her sons in college, Ms. Gilman was searching for something unknowable, unnameable . . . until she bought a small house in a little lobstering village in Nova Scotia, Canada.
And so she began her life again, discovering talents and interests she never...more
And so she began her life again, discovering talents and interests she never...more
Mass Market Paperback, 130 pages
Published
February 28th 1989
by Fawcett
(first published 1978)
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This is along the lines of Taber's Stillmeadow Daybook, and is about Ms. Gilman's move to Nova Scotia after a life of city & suburban dwelling. It consists mostly of sketches rather than plot - little depth about the adjustments of the move or the resultant philosophical changes. Some of each are there, but not a lot. Enjoyable, but not revealing enough to be moving. Good, but not as good as it could have been.
Gilman states some important things very plainly and cleanly - she's a great advocate for simplicity and autonomy. The book could be more tightly focused, and I was repulsed by one chapter of total New Age gibberish, but the book makes a short and sweet antidote to consumerism.
I have given this book about fifty times but it is hard to come by these days. It is the story of a woman who had to find a place in order to find herself. Be care - many have left their boring lives and struck out to claim something new and better. It is a hell of a read.
An interesting quick read about how Gilman moved to Nova Scotia in order to be alone, only to realize that she would discover herself there. Very similar in many ways to Anne Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea.
very interesting read.
thought provoking about one's own life.
out of print (drat)
thought provoking about one's own life.
out of print (drat)
There are some brilliant bits of insight in this little book. Definitely worth reading or re-reading.
Just finished re-reading this book and it never ceases to amaze me how stories of personal discovery are timeless. She wrote this quite awhile ago and yet I found it relevant and wise.
a short book with a lot of heart. To honor her passing.
Wonderful, thoughtful, interesting book
May 10, 2012
Christina
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I wish I had written this review when I finished the book a few months ago. It's very much a snapshot in her time of when she was a no longer married woman in the 70s whose kids have grown up who learns to find herself apart from the others by going to the coast of Nova Scotia and having a go at a garden. Which sounds perhaps cheesy or red-hat-ladies-esque, but which was actually quite lovely in a quiet and honest way.
I have an old old hardcover copy of this book. Dorothy Gilman's books always looked like they would be lame and insubstantial, and maybe they are, but this autobiographical reflection was enlightening and wonderfully written.
This book changed my life when I first read it 20 yrs. ago. I now own it and have recently re-read it and it provoked more deep thinking about myself.
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Dorothy Gilman started writing when she was 9. At 11, she competed against 10 to 16-year-olds in a story contest and won first place. Dorothy worked as an art teacher and telephone operator before becoming an author. She wrote children’s stories for more than ten years under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters and then began writing adult novels about Mrs. Pollifax–a retired grandmother who becomes a...more
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