"A lyrical, candid, sensitive spirit pervades this chronicle, which ends with Sarton well again, rejoicing in the present and putting the past behind her."--Publishers Weekly.
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May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. In 1915, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started theatre lessons in her late teens. In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive (1988) is about their relationship. Sarton later moved to York, Maine. She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995. She is buried in Nelson, New Hampshire.
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I was interested in Sarton's experience with stroke, since I've a relative going through this. The journal covers her 73rd year after a mild stroke leaves her weak in her left side. Although the stroke was not a major debilitating one, the varied problems from irregular heartbeat, congestive heart failure and feeling ill from various medicines affects her quality of life.
The journal tracks her daily struggle to recover her creative thinking and to live alone (in coastal Maine). Her flower garden, letters and visits, plus her aging dog and young kitten bring her solace from her problems. Sprinkled with literary references and nature observations, the journal makes pleasant reading. If you have an aging parent or friend/relative with an illness, you can gain insight by reading Sarton's account of her difficulties and recovery.
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I've a longtime fan of Sarton on end of life issues ("The Reckoning", "As We Are Now") so who better than this insightful septuagenarian to help me understand my mom's post-stroke experience?
No success on first pass--I found Sarton's journal entries tedious, self-absorbed, overwhelmed, and fretful, so I set the book aside. I came back around on it recently and had an 'ah-ha' moment: after the stroke, that's the way it is--tedious, self-absorbed, overwhelming, and fretful. Hang in there--Sarton's literary light shines on as she inserts wonderful snippets of poems and letters on aging, illness, and enjoying the now. Better yet, her gallant spirit rallies past fraility and fatigue on the road back to life. I look forward now to reading her journals from earlier, better times.
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Book was bought for a friend and I was told it was a very good read. Arrived in good condition and was packaged well. Recommend the seller.
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IT MAY PROVE impossible because my head feels so queer and the smallest effort, mental or physical, exhausts, but I feel so deprived of my self being unable to write, cut off since early January from all that I mean about my life, that I think I must try to write a few lines every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Pat Keen, Jean Alice, Maggie Vaughan, San Antonio, Eleanor Blair, Massachusetts General, York Hospital, Los Angeles, Nicholas Nickleby, World War, Brad Daziel, Faithful Are the Wounds, Juliette Huxley, New England, Phillips House, Anne Thorp, Carol Heilbrun, Helen Waddell, Jane Reid, Karen Saum, Louise Bogan, Rene Morgan, Robert Francis, Rusty Moe New!
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IT MAY PROVE impossible because my head feels so queer and the smallest effort, mental or physical, exhausts, but I feel so deprived of my self being unable to write, cut off since early January from all that I mean about my life, that I think I must try to write a few lines every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Pat Keen, Jean Alice, Maggie Vaughan, San Antonio, Eleanor Blair, Massachusetts General, York Hospital, Los Angeles, Nicholas Nickleby, World War, Brad Daziel, Faithful Are the Wounds, Juliette Huxley, New England, Phillips House, Anne Thorp, Carol Heilbrun, Helen Waddell, Jane Reid, Karen Saum, Louise Bogan, Rene Morgan, Robert Francis, Rusty Moe New!
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- Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing by Sarton May in Front Matter, and page 164
- The Flying Change: Poems by Henry Taylor in Front Matter, and page 56
- As We Are Now: A Novel by May Sarton in Front Matter, and page 173
- Come Hither by Walter De La Mare in Front Matter, and page 91
- Collected Poems (Gallery Books) by Pearse Hutchinson in Front Matter
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- The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions by Carl E. Schneider in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey by Marlene A. Schiwy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide by Nan Bauer-Maglin on page 58, and Back Matter
- The Hidden Writer by Alexandra Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Good Days, Bad Days: The Self and Chronic Illness in Time by Kathy C. Charmaz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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