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  • The Small Room

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1976

    Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed...
  • Halfway to Silence: New Poems

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1980

    Pure lyric poems come rarely in any poet's life.
  • Collected Poems, 1930-1993

    May Sarton

    Hardback, 1993

    A collection of poetry by the author of Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year and Among the Usual Days celebrates sixty years of creative output with poems culled from Sarton's thirteen...
  • The Bridge of Years: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1985

    "Beautifully wrought . . . deeply felt and significant in theme." —Saturday Review
  • Joanna and Ulysses

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1988

    For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.
  • A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1989

    "Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." —Choice
  • The Birth of a Grandfather: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1989

    Grandfathers are generally produced by the birth of grandchildren. But Sprig Wyeth needed more than the arrival of his first grandchild to welcome that role.
  • After the Stroke: A Journal

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1990

    "This distinguished poet/essayist. . .describes poignantly the long, anxious days. . . .A lyrical, candid, sensitive spirit pervades this chronicle, which ends with Sarton well again, rejoicing in...
  • The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early Poems

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1990

    “Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style.”—Boston Globe
  • The Single Hound

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1991

    “Only a poet and, perhaps, only a young poet could have written this beautiful and distinguished first novel.” —New York Times