Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing : a novel /

May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate desp...

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Main Author:	Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1975.
Edition:	First Norton paperback edition.
Series:	Norton library.
Subjects:	1900-1999 Women poets > Fiction. Older women > Fiction. American fiction. Older women. Women poets. Fiction. Gay fiction. Romance fiction. Novels. Psychological fiction.