Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

May Sarton

fiction classics lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced

224 pages | first published 1965

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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 h...
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