May Sarton

[desayunoencama]

I read May Sarton's FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS yesterday (my 20th book of the year and yesterday was Jan 20--oops). What a wonderful book!

Political and engaged and perceptive and so very complex and nuanced in how we humans are and feel and act.

A perfect thing to read during an election year, too.

All about a Harvard professor fighting against McCarthyism on general principle, and how his ideals wind up tearing him apart (and how this winds up galvinizing all who knew him, from his friends to his enemies).

I still love more her THE SMALL ROOM, but this was a very good book, and just what I needed to read now.

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[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I just read her After the Stroke diaries, which I picked up on a whim, and made me want to read more. This one sounds like a good choice.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

I just read her THE BIRTH OF A GRANDFATHER, too, yesterday and today. She is an excellent writer, and I admire her more and more the more I read of her work.

THE SMALL ROOM is another novel set in Academia, at a small all-women's liberal arts college in New England, and the conflicts surrounding a star student who is caught plagiarising. Very nuanced and complex.