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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( S ) : Sarton, May
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May Sarton writes with keen observation of both inner and outer worlds--a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas--and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. "An honorable confession of the writer's faults, fears, sadnesses, and disappointments. . . ."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reissue.
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When he finds an acceptable home and makes a decision to stay with the Voices that inhabit it, Tom Jones, a Cat-about-Town, becomes a Gentleman Cat and in time evolves into a genuine Fur Person, in a new gift edition of the classc tale for cat lovers.
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A novel in the form of a diary, this story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and been deposited by relatives in an old people's home. Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory. "I shared the anger and the righteous indignation which I felt behind every line."--Madeleine L'Engle. Reissue.
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In 1973, May Sarton moved to a house on the seacoast of Maine. It was a place that was alone in all but a few months in the summer, with the sea and the woods, and a wide sky ever present. She discovered that what she has to give does not depend on others. This is her journal of that time.
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Records May Sarton's seventy-ninth year as a period of change during which she battled for her health while persevering in her work, friendships, and love of nature. Reprint. LJ.
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"Sarton has fashioned her journals, 'sonatas'as she calls them, into a distinctive literary form: relaxed yet shapely, a silky weave of reflection . . . with the reader made companion to her inmost thoughts.
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In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical recognition, and creative spark. Readers both old and new will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey. Photos.
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When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with womenher brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and especially a woman she knew when she was young.
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Joanna's holiday on the little Greek island of Santorini was meant to be a solitary one in which she would recover from the bitterness of the Greek war and her mothers's death--until she adopted Ulysses, the mistreated little donkey.
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"A serious novel of family relationships, particularly about the shifts and changes that occur in families in the middle years."--San Francisco Chronicle. Sprig Wyeth needs more than a grandchild to make him a grandfather in this warm story 12,500 print.
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