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""The House by the Sea" is one of a seriess of journal swritten for publication by the poet May Sarton. This book follows "Plant Dreaming Deep" and "A Journal of Solitude" and concerns the first few years of her life when she moved from a small village in New England to New York in order to escape her problems. In this book she deals with the loss of her long time partner to senility, her struggles with her temper and with the events that have affected her life and career. In the book she is candid about her temper tantrums, her need for solitude which clashes with her need to give lectures in order to earn money, the problems of loving someone who no longer has any memory of their shared past, and her fears of growing old and frail.
It is not an easy book to read as the author lays her depression and fears cleanly on the page. I read this book feeling both challenged by the intensity of May Sarton's suffering and happier that in her sixties she was beginning to come to terms with herself."
Lynn Bradshaw, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Gender/Class story?
- old people story
Family, ill
Yes
Who?
- wife
because he/she is
- mentally ill
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- lesbianism!
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 60's-90's
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 ()
United States
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- challenged
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- religion
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
If this is a kid's book:
- Age 16-Adult
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A few 1-5 B&W
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 51-75% of book
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