Crucial Conversations - Hardcover

Sarton, M

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144 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393087255 ISBN 13: 9780393087253

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1975

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A feminist novel which follows the fortunes of a woman, a frustrated artist desperate to exist as an individual. She has to know whether her art is real, or just therapy, and must escape wifehood and a husband who has no understanding of her feelings. By the author of KINDS OF LOVE, A RECKONING and A SHOWER OF SUMMER DAYS.

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Produces insight for the reader into the modern dilemma of freedom versus marriage, self-realization versus service and duty and finally the Sisyphean problems of the person alone, living on the threshold of other lives. . . . I find Crucial Conversations moving. . . . May Sarton has dealt with every aspect of female existence, with every kind of love. In this latest novel she has taken another, new step forward, and suggested a radical solution to the human-bondage-in-marriage status. --Doris Grumbach"

May Sarton again has entered Marquand-Updike territory and fortunately for us has brought to this fictional region the viewpoint of a first-rate craftsman who happens to be a woman vitally interested in both art and life.

About the Author:

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

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