1939
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The subject of the book is the human heart. The emotion is intense, the point of view mature, the expression direct, fresh and simple. Sarton's aim is to present the landscape of the heart without confusion and without sentimentality, a fire reflected in a mirror, flight as expressed in the tension of a spire.
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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.
