1976
First Published
4.03
Average Rating
248
Number of Pages
"Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." ― Choice 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 the arts―Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Brogan, Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center―Marc, the vigneron of Satigny, in the foothills of the Jura mountains, and Quig, the painter of Nelson, New Hampshire.
Avg Rating
4.03
Number of Ratings
63
5 STARS
38%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
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Author
May Sarton
Author · 51 books
May Sarton was born on May 3, 1912, in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel, The Single Hound, in 1938. An accomplished memoirist, Sarton boldly came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her later memoir, Journal of a Solitude, was an account of her experiences as a female artist. Sarton died in York, Maine, on July 16, 1995.
