3 edition of The magnificent spinster found in the catalog.
The magnificent spinster
May Sarton
Published
1988
by Norton in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | by May Sarton |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3537.A832 M3 1988 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 384 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 384 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL24937695M |
| ISBN 10 | 0393305600 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780393305609 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 22269836 |
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Members register for free and can request review copies or be invited to review by the publisher. From the W.W. Norton edition: In May Sarton‘s novel, The Magnificent Spinster, she explores the realities and reverberations of a fifty-year friendship between two remarkable women that ended with the death of Jane Reid.
It is relived because Cam, in her seventies, felt compelled to celebrate “the magnificent spinster” in a novel. Jan 09, · The Magnificent Spinster is my second May Sarton novel, and it has lead me to The magnificent spinster book every book I can find by her.
I was introduced to Ms. Sarton by Thomas of The Readers when he recommended reading As We Are Now - a slim book that I think about all the time. The magnificent spinster: a novel User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. This fiction of friendship and devotion shows Sarton's narrative skills still strong and healthy in her seventh decade.
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“The Magnificent Spinster” is a novel about writing a novel, which is really a biography. May Sarton writes about Cam, who is writing a biographical fiction about her great friend and former.
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I was disappointed that almost nothing was said about Reid's time at Vassar, and there wasn't as much about being a teacher as I'd hoped, but I still mostly enjoyed the book/5(6). May Sarton’s powerful and profound novel of an extraordinary life, and of one woman’s efforts to preserve the force and vitality of her experiences on the pages of a bookFor the second time in my l.
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A National Book Award finalist, “A Shower of Summer Days establishes once and for all [Sarton’s] unmistakable authority” (The New York Times Book Review).
The Magnificent Spinster: This “absolutely compelling monument to love [and] friendship” is actually the story of two women: Cam, the novel’s narrator, and the Brand: Open Road Media. At seventy, Cam decides to document the life of her dear friend Jane Reid (the eponymous spinster), who has recently passed away.
She decides to write it as a novel rather than a biography, since there are gaps in her knowledge of Jane’s life.
So The Magnificent Spinster is a novel-within-a-novel, revealing as much about Cam as Jane. The two /5(2).Buy The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(2).I mean, she was awesome, but not a spinster in the never-married sense.
Now Agnes Gooch is a spinster who married a drunken asshole who knocked her up, which is spun as a triumph for some reason. You're better off without him, Agnes. If I had a boat, The Magnificent Spinster would be a great name for it.
