At Seventy
A Journal
Published on 16. December 2014
311 pages
978-1-4976-8544-4 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the American Book Award: May Sarton's honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast.
May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences are raw, and her observations are infused with the poetic candor for which Sarton-over the course of her decades-long career-became known.
An enlightening glimpse into a time-the early 1980s-and an age, At Seventy is at once specific and universal, providing a unique window into septuagenarian life that readers of all generations will enjoy. At times mournful and at others hopeful, this is a beautiful memoir of the year in which Sarton, looking back on it all, could proclaim, "I am more myself than I have ever been."
May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences are raw, and her observations are infused with the poetic candor for which Sarton-over the course of her decades-long career-became known.
An enlightening glimpse into a time-the early 1980s-and an age, At Seventy is at once specific and universal, providing a unique window into septuagenarian life that readers of all generations will enjoy. At times mournful and at others hopeful, this is a beautiful memoir of the year in which Sarton, looking back on it all, could proclaim, "I am more myself than I have ever been."
More details
Person
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,
The Single Hound, in 1938.Her novels
A Shower of Summer Days,
The Birth of a Grandfather, and
Faithful Are the Wounds, as well as her poetry collection
In Time Like Air, all receivednominations for the National Book Award.
An accomplished memoirist, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her memoir Journal of a Solitude(1973) was an account of her experiences as a female artist.Sarton spent her later years in York, Maine, living and writing by the sea. In her memoir Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year(1992), she shares her own personal thoughts on getting older. Her final poetry collection, Coming into Eighty, was published in 1994.Sarton died on July 16, 1995, in York, Maine.
An accomplished memoirist, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her memoir Journal of a Solitude(1973) was an account of her experiences as a female artist.Sarton spent her later years in York, Maine, living and writing by the sea. In her memoir Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year(1992), she shares her own personal thoughts on getting older. Her final poetry collection, Coming into Eighty, was published in 1994.Sarton died on July 16, 1995, in York, Maine.
Content
- Cover Page
- Monday, May 3rd, 1982
- Tuesday, May 4th
- Wednesday, May 5th
- Thursday, May 6th
- Saturday, May 8th
- Sunday, May 9th
- Wednesday, May 12th
- Thursday, May 13th
- Friday, May 14th
- Saturday, May 15th
- Sunday, May 16th
- Monday, May 17th
- Tuesday, May 18th
- Thursday, May 20th
- Friday, May 21st
- Sunday, May 23rd
- Wednesday, May 26th
- Friday, May 28th
- Saturday, May 29th
- Monday, Memorial Day
- Thursday, June 3rd
- Friday, June 4th
- Sunday, June 6th
- Tuesday, June 8th
- Friday, June 11th
- Sunday, June 13th
- Monday, June 14th
- Wednesday, June 16th
- Saturday, June 19th
- Sunday, June 20th
- Wednesday, June 23rd
- Thursday, June 24th
- Sunday, June 27th
- Wednesday, June 30th
- Friday, July 2nd
- Sunday, July 4th
- Thursday, July 8th
- Saturday, July 10th
- Tuesday, July 13th
- Saturday, July 17th
- Monday, July 19th
- Wednesday, July 21st
- Thursday, July 22nd
- Saturday, July 24th
- Sunday, July 25th
- Wednesday, July 28th
- Thursday, July 29th
- Sunday, August 1st
- Monday, August 2nd
- Thursday, August 5th
- Monday, August 9th
- Wednesday, August 11th
- Thursday, August 12th
- Saturday, August 14th
- Sunday, August 15th
- Monday, August 16th
- Wednesday, August 18th
- Sunday, August 22nd
- Monday, August 23rd
- Friday, August 27th
- Monday, August 30th
- Tuesday, August 31st
- Sunday, September 5th
- Labor Day, September 6th
- Wednesday, September 8th
- Monday, September 13th
- Friday, September 17th
- Saturday, September 18th
- Monday, September 20th
- Wednesday, September 22nd
- Friday, September 24th
- Saturday, September 25th
- Tuesday, September 28th
- Thursday, September 30th
- Monday, October 4th
- Thursday, October 7th
- Friday, October 8th
- Monday, October 11th
- Tuesday, October 12th
- Sunday, October 17th
- Monday, October 18th
- Tuesday, October 19th
- Wednesday, October 20th
- Thursday, October 21st
- Friday, November 5th
- Sunday, November 7th
- Monday, November 8th
- Wednesday, November 10th
- Saturday, November 13th
- Monday, November 15th
- Thursday, November 18th
- Friday, November 19th
- Wednesday, December 1st
- Sunday, December 5th
- Thursday, December 9th
- Monday, December 13th
- Wednesday, December 22nd
- Wednesday, December 29th
- Saturday, January 1, 1983
- Sunday, January 2nd
- Tuesday, January 4th
- Thursday, January 6th
- Monday, January 10th
- Tuesday, January 11th
- Wednesday, January 12th
- Friday, January 14th
- Saturday, January 15th
- Sunday, January 16th
- Tuesday, January 18th
- Wednesday, January 19th
- Friday, January 21st
- Sunday, January 23rd
- Tuesday, January 25th
- Saturday, January 29th
- Monday, January 31st
- Thursday, February 3rd
- Sunday, February 6th
- Tuesday, February 8th
- Wednesday, February 9th
- Saturday, February 12th
- Monday, February 14th, Valentine's Day
- Thursday, February 17th
- Monday, February 21st
- Thursday, February 24th
- Friday, February 25th
- Monday, February 28th
- Tuesday, March 1st
- Thursday, March 3rd
- Sunday, March 6th
- Tuesday, March 8th
- Friday, March 11th
- Monday, March 14th
- Thursday, March 17th
- Friday, March 18th
- Sunday, March 20th
- Tuesday, March 22nd
- Friday, March 25th
- Monday, March 28th
- Friday, April 1st
- Saturday, April 2nd
- Easter Day, April 3rd
- Wednesday, April 6th
- Monday, April 11th
- Sunday, April 17th
- Saturday, April 30th
- Sunday, May 1st
- Monday, May 2nd
- A Biography of May Sarton
- Copyright Page
