"All books by May Sarton"
Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
Paperback, 1999
"Sarton has been the lighthouse light for millions of women, and despite the dimming of that light, she remains [in this book] the Sarton who wrote Journal of a Solitude."—Library Journal
Anger: A Novel
Paperback, 1996
The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel
Paperback, 1996
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.
A Private Mythology: Poems
Paperback, 1996
In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and finally home to the New...
A Reckoning: A Novel
Paperback, 1997
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she...
At Eighty-Two: A Journal
Paperback, 1997
“Reporting from the front lines on the author’s daily battle with a body and a mind that increasingly refuse to cooperate, At Eighty-Two captures this struggle with a simplicity, elegance and...
Coming into Eighty: Poems
Paperback, 1998
In this collection, May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age.
Faithful Are the Wounds: A Novel
Paperback, 1998
Set in the academic world of Harvard and Cambridge, this novel dramatizes the plight of the embattled American liberal in the 1950s.
Letters from Maine: Poems
Paperback, 1998
In poems gathered into three sections under the titles "Letters from Maine," "A Winter Garland," and "Letters to Myself," Sarton's inspiration was a new, brief, and passionate love affair.
Recovering: A Journal
Paperback, 1998
"Sarton's 'art of making exquisite distinctions' and her vulnerability as a human being are her timeless gifts to her readers." —Library Journal