Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: journal, recovering
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1997-12
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 039331717X
ISBN-13: 9780393317176

May Sarton’s sixty-sixth year,1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. How her friendships, her love of the natural world, and her growing audience of readers brought her back is this journal’s story.

Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: solitude, journal
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-10-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393309282
ISBN-13: 9780393309287

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.

Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: dreaming, plant
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-09-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393315517
ISBN-13: 9780393315516

May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: conversations, crucial
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1994-02-17
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0393311023
ISBN-13: 9780393311020

"May Sarton’s provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." —The Atlantic Reed and Poppy Whitelaw’s conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a series of encounters that follow the shock of this news, which affects not only Reed but also their children and friends—in particular Philip, who must learn why he is so invested in their marriage—Reed and Poppy struggle to

Author: Sarton May
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Keywords: journal, seventy
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1993-04-17
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0393310302
ISBN-13: 9780393310306

"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.

Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: ulysses, joanna
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1987-11-17
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0393304140
ISBN-13: 9780393304145

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.

Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: person, fur
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 1983-11
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0393301311
ISBN-13: 9780393301311

A delightful, whimsical tale—one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written, now newly illustrated. May Sarton’s fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones’s life and adventures prior to making the author’s acquaintance begins with a fiercely independent, nameless street cat who follows the ten commandments of the Gentleman Cat—including "A Gentleman Cat allows no constraint of his person, not even loving constraint." But after several years of roaming, Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might be some appeal after all