He has published eight novels: "Chronic City," "You Don't Love Me Yet," "The Fortress of Solitude," "Gun, With Occasional Music," "Amnesia Moon," "As She Climbed Across the Table," "Girl in Landscape" and "Motherless Brooklyn," which won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.
The rough-hewn path through pine, oak and juniper was taken mostly in solitude, interrupted only by occasional farmers with their donkeys and wares, or a lone monk drawing water from a stream.
Ignoring the occasional plane overhead, we bathed in the solitude.
Painting in relative solitude since the late 1930s, with only the occasional exhibition, Ms. Herrera was sustained, she said, by the unflinching support of her husband of 61 years, Jesse Loewenthal.
The solitude -- unbroken except for backyard visits from deer or an occasional invited guest -- distinguishes Copland House from other retreats, where artists work alone but gather for meals and social events.
But, although there may be occasional longueurs, Leigh gets there in the end by offering a devastating portrait of the solitude that haunts many of the inhabitants of a teeming city like London.
But mostly, solitude pervades.
