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Journal of a Solitude
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1992
197 kr
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"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this …
Recovering
A Journal
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1997
296 kr
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May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the …
Small Room
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1976
320 kr
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How the central characters—students and teachers—react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing novel.
Halfway to Silence
New Poems
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1980
218 kr
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When they do, the must be treasured as gifts from the White Goddess, "sister of the mirage and echo." To May Sarton, poetry was life's deepest creative passion. It reflected the preoccupations of her mind and emotions as she progressed through more than five decades of experiencing the natural …
Collected Poems, 1930-1993
1930 - 1993
Av May Sarton
Inbunden, 1993
763 kr
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Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal …
May Sarton
Selected Letters, 1915-1954
Inbunden, 1997
713 kr
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All her life, May Sarton carried on a voluminous private correspondence—with family, friends, and lovers. From the beginning, as these remarkable letters show, the essence of an extraordinary human being was present, her gifts ready to unfurl and mature.Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for …
Grain of a Mustard Seed
Poems
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1971
255 kr
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Compilation of intense, spirited verse which explores the realms of religion, politics, nature, violence, and old age.
Selected Poems of May Sarton
Av May Sarton, Serena Sue Hilsinger m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
361 kr
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The poems in this first selection from her whole work were written over a period of forty years. They convey a wonderfully energetic alternation of mood, idea, and experience that are part of her unique creative process.
Shadow Of A Man
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1982
345 kr
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Twenty-six-year-old Francis Chabrier fears his inability to love until he discovers the distinctive beauties of Paris and his first love at the same time
Bridge of Years
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1985
361 kr
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This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton's earliest and, some critics think, one of her best. It takes place during the years between the world wars and explores the life of a Belgian family, the Duchesnes, and their mutual devotion which intensifies under the shadow of impending …
Joanna and Ulysses
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1987
263 kr
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She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her own heart. The holiday was to be a solitary experience. But that was before Joanna met Ulysses, the mistreated little donkey.
World of Light
Portraits and Celebrations
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1988
296 kr
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May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five—between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep. Her subjects include her father, the noted science historian George Sarton; people in …
Birth of a Grandfather
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1989
329 kr
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This is the story of the Wyeth family, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts (and in the summer, Maine): the very old, who are looking back; Sprig and his wife Frances, who are finding their way in the midst of youthful hopes that refuse to fade away; and the young, embarking on adulthood, sometimes with …
After the Stroke
A Journal
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1990
303 kr
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The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life of solitude, and offers keen observations on the natural world surrounding her.
Silence Now
New and Uncollected Early Poems
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1990
238 kr
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“Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style.”—Boston Globe
Single Hound
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1991
320 kr
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This is the story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman. When Mark Taylor finds his life and art broken up by his love for an older, married woman, he turns for help to the poems of Jean Latour and finds the help he craves in the …
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1975
296 kr
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May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate despair …
As We Are Now
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1992
168 kr
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So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected …
Education of Harriet Hatfield
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1990
361 kr
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When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she is bombarded by anonymous threats. And when the Boston Globe reports "Lesbian Bookstore Owner Threatened", her education in the narrow-mindedness of her fellow man—and woman—begins.
At Seventy
A Journal
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1987
289 kr
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May Sarton—poet, novelist, and chronicler—occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors “the experience of being alive in this beautiful place,” reflecting on nature, friends, …
Kinds of Love
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1994
411 kr
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Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"—people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the city when the cold weather comes. This year, however, Christina and Cornelius have decided to stay on.May Sarton's Willard is a small …
Crucial Conversations
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1994
279 kr
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Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a series of encounters that follow the shock of this news, which affects not only Reed but also their children and friends—in particular Philip, who …
I Knew a Phoenix
Sketches for an Autobiography
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1996
320 kr
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Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
Magnificent Spinster
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1988
370 kr
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The “magnificent spinster” is Jane Reid, a teacher who became not only a revered role model but a dear friend to Cam, the narrator of this novel within a novel. After Jane’s death, the accidental discovery of poems written by Cam in her youth to Jane prompts a flood of recollections—and frees Cam …
Shower of Summer Days
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1995
329 kr
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So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood home, where much had to be settled in one brief summer—fateful decisions about a marriage, a love affair, and a career. No influence was more important than the splendid old Dene's Court …
Encore
A Journal of the Eightieth Year
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1995
334 kr
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Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more, what it feels like to endure pain and to be afraid. Other days her energy returns, her spirits lift, and projects abound. Readers both new and old will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing …
Endgame
A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1996
334 kr
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"I had always imagined a philosophical journal of my seventy-ninth year, dealing with the joys and problems, the doors opening out from old age to unknown efforts and surprises. I looked forward to the year as a potent harvest," May Sarton writes. Assailed by debilitating illnesses, Sarton found …
Anger
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1996
288 kr
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Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both anger and love.
House by the Sea
A Journal
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1996
329 kr
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Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought—and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.
Plant Dreaming Deep
A Novel
Av May Sarton
Häftad, 1996
288 kr
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May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
