Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

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 despair reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary's brusque, sympathetic intelligence.

Author: May Sarton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/1993
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780393309294

About the Author
Sarton, May: - May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.