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A powerful and beautiful novella of one woman, consigned to a dreary retirement home, who wages a defiant battle against the dulling forces around her After seventy-six-year-old Caro Spencer suffers a heart attack, her family sends her to a private retirement home to wait out the rest of her days. Her memory growing fuzzy, Caro decides to keep a journal to document the daily goings-on-her feelings of confinement and boredom; her distrust of the home's...
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May Sarton's lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative life In "The Book of Babylon," May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic-except of her own work. The essay addresses questions that have haunted Sarton's own creative practice, such as the concept of "tension in equilibrium"-balancing past and present, idea and image. She also cites poems written by others to describe the joy...
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