BOOKS - Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
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Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Author: May Sarton
Year: January 1, 1965
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1000 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 1965
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1000 KB
Language: English
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 reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary s brusque, sympathetic intelligence. and "