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Doris Grumbach (1918–2022)

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17+ Werke 992 Mitglieder 11 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 3 Lesern

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Beinhaltet die Namen: Grumbach Doris, Doris Grumbach

Bildnachweis: Photograph by Robert Giard & Copyright@Estate of Robert Giard.

Werke von Doris Grumbach

The Ladies (1984) 198 Exemplare
Fifty Days of Solitude (1994) 193 Exemplare
Chamber Music (1979) 119 Exemplare
Life in a Day (1996) 79 Exemplare
Extra Innings: A Memoir (1993) 66 Exemplare
The Pleasure of their Company (2000) 49 Exemplare
The Magician's Girl (1987) 36 Exemplare
The Missing Person (1981) 33 Exemplare
The Book of Knowledge (1995) 27 Exemplare
The Company She Kept (1967) 16 Exemplare
The missing person 1 Exemplar

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Winter (1911) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben9,451 Exemplare
Unter den Hügeln die kommende Zeit (1913) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben6,311 Exemplare
Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul (1994) — Mitwirkender — 213 Exemplare
Readers Quotation Book: A Literary Companion (1990) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben91 Exemplare
Three Short Novels (1958) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben55 Exemplare

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When she was twenty-seven years old, writer Doris Grumbach had an epiphany. It was as if God were right there beside her, and she had a “feeling of peace so intense that it seemed to expand into ineffable joy.” After this fleeting moment, Grumbach became determined to recapture what she had felt. The Presence of Absence is the story of her fifty-year search.

Grumbach is an open-minded and skilled seeker, and she writes candidly of the people she has met along the way. She details how she lost her path after decades of going to her Protestant church and writes of her turn to personal spirituality. In her quest to find God, she encounters a multitude of philosophies and gives all of them their due. She reads the works of Thomas Merton and Simone Weil, seeks the advice of her seminary-attending daughter, and studies the Psalms. Despite the setbacks of disease, injury, and ego, Grumbach perseveres in her pursuit of beauty and proof in the absence.… (mehr)
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Sep 16, 2023 |
Book got on my nerves. Felt like it was one of those books where people give up something, usually for a year (buying things from China, TV, etc) and then write a book. But she didn't try very hard since she moves to rural Maine for 50 days (around 6 weeks, duh!) but still listens to music, the radio, goes to church, answers the door, picks up neighbors on the road, goes to the store.. and also gets letters from friends and family. Many of us were much more isolated during the pandemic.
 
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ilovemycat1 | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 17, 2023 |
A charming and thoughtful little book in which nothing much happens but we get a detailed look into the inner life of this self-styled iconoclast and admitted introvert and grump. Grumbach was almost 77 when she wrote this and very conscious of aging. She's still around and will turn 103 in two weeks. One of my favorite authors. Happy birthday, Doris.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
 
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TimBazzett | Jun 29, 2021 |
The book was interesting and had several passages with observations that were worth of further reflection. At times her observations were clothed in more drama than the actual experience may have deserved. Then again it was her experience and who am I to judge? I'm glad I read the short book.
 
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hazel1123 | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 29, 2017 |

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