Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

May Sarton

224 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary romance emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 h...

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Moods

reflective: 100%

emotional: 75%

challenging: 50%

dark: 25%

sad: 25%


Pace

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slow

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Character

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Loveable characters?

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