Intimacy And Solitude : Balancing Closeness and Independence

Stephanie Dowrick captures the essential essence of what intimacy is all about. Her intelligent, broadly informed personal approach causes us all to reexamine our deeply held assumptoin about both solitude and intimacy. Sympathetically, and with a rare clarity, Intimacy and Solitude offers penetrating insights into some of the most basic pardoxes of human relationships. I welcome her inclusion of personal, social, political and environmental in one vision and her gentle, insistent reminder that other people are important too. Dowrick presents a hologram of society as it is, seeing with compassion the problems of men and women, parents and children alike-we are playing more than just one role in the drama.