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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 ...
May Sarton's novel "Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing" tells the story of Hilary Stevens, a 70-year old poet and novelist who lives in a house by the sea with her cat, Sirenica. When a two-person team comes to interview her, she reflects on her life, love affairs, and literary career.
- May Sarton
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing 2006 2h 0m Drama Romance List. Reviews A scandal results when a lesbian author writes a book about two women in love. Read More Read Less. Cast ...
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Editions for Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: 0393309290 (Paperback published in 1975), (Kindle Edition published in 2014), 0393007626 (Paperback...
Like. “How cruel memory is, forgetful memory that drops whole lives out without a qualm!”. ― May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. 2 likes. Like. “Nothing gets easier as one gets older. Everything is harder, even buttoning one's slipper!”. ― May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. 2 likes.
13 gen 2012 · by May Sarton. Sarton’s most important novel tells the story of a poet in her seventies, whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a literary magazine. Hilary Stevens’s prolific career includes a provocative novel that shot her into the public consciousness years ago, and an oeuvre of poetry that more ...
27 dic 2015 · Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing is actually a lot like a memoir: it’s hard not to read the story of novelist and poet Hilary Stevens reflecting — through the device of an interview — on her life’s work as a version of Sarton’s own story, as an attempt to dramatize questions she had thought a lot about regarding creativity and love.
