Author: Sarton, May

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 journey.
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

By: Sarton, May

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 1995

Seller ID: 459021

ISBN-13: 9780393313178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 journey.
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Halfway to Silence: New Poems

By: Sarton, May

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 1980

Seller ID: 444087

ISBN-13: 9780393009927

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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 world, love and friendship, and the crises of the times. But for a long while she felt the lyric mood was past. Then, abruptly, her life took a new turn, and a marvelously musical flow of short poems came from her pen. They are collected here, in this small volume.
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May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954

By: Sarton, May

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : June 1997

Seller ID: 219042

ISBN-13: 9780393039542

Binding: Hardcover

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Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for books. Later we enter the world of the theater, then years rich with study, travel, teaching, and the discipline of craft. Sarton's deep anguish as World War II approaches pervades many letters, but readers will also encounter the things that gave Sarton joy: her love of flowers, her affection for animals, her celebration of beauty in all its guises.As Sarton divides her time between America and Europe, in an era when ocean voyages were the norm, illustrious acquaintances and intimates are introduced, among them Eva Le Gallienne, Elizabeth Bowen, V...
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The Bridge of Years: A Novel

By: Sarton, May

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 1985

Seller ID: 469833

ISBN-13: 9780393302394

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M lanie Duchesne, mother of three, is an active businesswoman, whose courage, energy, and optimism bind the family and its farm together. Paul, her husband, is a philosopher, detached, moody, continually embroiled in the spiritual conflicts of a crumbling Europe.

The last years before the second war are tense ones, a time for stock-taking, for a quickening of the pace of life. But it is M lanie who encourages her family to proceed with their plans, to continue with their way of life. And it is M lanie who decides their future as the Germans launch their invasion of Belgium.
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Author: Sarton, May

After the Stroke: A Journal

Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Halfway to Silence: New Poems

May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954

The Bridge of Years: A Novel

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