The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.
Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both anger and love.
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An amazing novel. . . . It ventures into new territory and opens fresh vistas into character and temperament. (Cleveland Plain Dealer )
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May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.
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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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Small, richly eloquent rending of the mars and venus theme,
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Much before the popularization of the Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus books, May Sarton put to a few pages this gently told story of a young marriage. And in this small novel, I found, she illustrated in a richly eloquent, and somewhat edited style, the 'big idea'. I read this one wintry week-end as a close friend from Boston was soaking in my bath tub avidly reading MMWV. She had come to visit me in the 'country' of western Mass., seeking answers to a failed relationship, needing the solace of our friendship, and some get-away time from the big city/the 'scene of the crime'. In Sarton's pages was the whole story told with mastery and objective kindness. I have since felt they should be sold side by side. I prefer her rendition. It's a slower read, but, I thought, it was just perfect.
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Not as good as her memoirs,
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I love this author, but I was a bit disappointed with this one. Her main characters came across the page to me as being very shallow. There are great one-liners in this book. Many times there are references to wonderfully thought-provoking situations worded in a way that makes one think about the world a bit differently. It's worth the read, but not one of my favorites.
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May Sarton knows how to get to the heart of any relationship, and build the layers in a way that makes the characters so true to life. And this is not my favorite of her novels.PC
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Ned Fraser was forty and thought of himself as a "confirmed bachelor" when an unexpected event catapulted him into marriage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Anna Lindstrom, Ned Fraser, Pauline Fraser, Miss Springhof, Ernesta Aldrich, Kathleen Ferrier, Public Gardens, Ambrose Upton, Madame Elgar, Newbury Street, Poor Fonzi New!
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- Joanna and Ulysses by May Sarton in Front Matter
- The Small Room (Norton Library) by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Collected poems (1930-1973) by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Writings on Writing by May Sarton in Front Matter
- A Shower of Summer Days: A Novel by May Sarton in Front Matter
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