May Sarton: A Biography - Rilegato

Peters, Margot

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ISBN 10: 0679415211 ISBN 13: 9780679415213

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Riassunto

An intriguing portrait of the noted poet, essayist, novelist, and diarist traces the life of May Sarton, detailing her childhood in Belgium, her theatrical and literary careers, and her frequently troubled relationships with friends, colleagues, and lovers. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Margot Peters has been Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature. She is the author of Charlotte Brontë: Style in the Novel, Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë, Bernard Shaw and the Actresses, The House of Barrymore, and Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. She lives in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ography of May Sarton: a brilliant revelation of the life and work of a literary figure who influenced her thousands of readers not only by her novels and poetry, but by her life and her writings about it.

May Sarton's career stretched from 1930 (early sonnets published in Poetry magazine) to 1995 (her journal At Eighty-Two). She wrote more than twenty novels, and twenty-five books of poems and journals.

The acclaimed biographer Margot Peters was given full access to Sarton's letters, journals, and notes, and during five years of research came to know Sarton herself--the complex woman and artist. She gives us a compelling portrait of Sarton the actress, the poet, the novelist, the feminist, the writer who struggled for literary acceptance. She shows us, beneath Sarton's exhilarating, irresistible spirit, the needy courtier and seducer, the woman whose creativity was propelled by the psychic drama she created in others.

We watch young May at age two as she is abr

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679415211
• ISBN 13: 9780679415213
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 474