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| #164170 in Books | May Sarton | 1992-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.50 x5.50l,.30 | File type: PDF | 134 pages | As We Are Now||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sad poignant read|By Mia|Any society, any culture can be judged pretty accurately by how they treat their most vulnerable members. The elderly specifically as is the case in this short novel. It's an epistolary journal entry of stream consciousness of a 76 year old woman physically quite able and completely in control of her mental faculties that chronicles her psychological de||“May Sarton has never been better than she is in this beautiful, harrowing novel about being old, unwanted, yet refusing to give up. . . . The problems of old age have been detailed by sociologists but only a novel as searching and deeply felt as this on
"I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."
So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, sustained for too...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.As We Are Now: A Novel | May Sarton. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
