As We Are Now

by May Sarton

2021-01-01 10:58:28

"I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old." So begins May Sarton''s short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 76-... Read more
"I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."

So begins May Sarton''s short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, sustained for too short a time by the love of another person, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory. Less

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File size8.2 X 5.5 X 0.37 in
Print pages128
PublisherWW Norton
Publication date October 1, 1992
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780393309577
Author
May Sarton (1912–1995) was born on May 3 in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel,�...

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