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  <title><![CDATA[Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing]]></title>
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  <default_description>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. 
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1973</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carolyn Heilbrun writes  an introduction which puts Sarton's book in perspective.  The novel will be of interest to anyone who suspects that the creative woman often pays a great emotional price.  My first Sarton book, though I've started a couple of her journals.  The day I finished the book (March...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50351433">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[hard to find, but a really important book for women who are &quot;tuned to an intense frequency&quot; in life....one of those books I have given away often and re-read....tells the story of one woman's life looking backwards and what she learned and how she learned it....mostly through those she mos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77118045">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Hilary Stevens half opened her eyes, then closed them again.&quot;<br/><br/>Hilary Stevens is the mature poet and novelist, and in this novel she remembers the difficulties she has experienced in life, both in the areas of love and of being an artist.  She counsels a young man facing his first real cris...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36743791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most intense of her books yet. I can never seem to get enough of her novels]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half is great, the second half drags. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've recently read one of May Sarton's journals, and this novel is very similar to that book - the central character, an elderly writer looking back over her life and loves, both men and women, is clearly based on Sarton herself. I found it very readable (her prose is extremely moreish and you alway...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36554430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Altho the end wasn't as strong as the beginning, I definitely recommend this book about a fictional poet, who recalls how the various people she has encountered have changed her and influenced her craft.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life; I decided to become an English major after reading it.  Sarton is one of the most under-rated authors/poets of the 20th century.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish there was also a catagory for &quot;Who gave you this book?&quot;  My dear friend, Gregory Manin shared this book with me and introduced me to May Sarton.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[an incredible book about the choices of an artist ranging between her craft and her lovers. inspring really.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To think she wrote this in the early 1950's. Wish I had read it in high school. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i heart this story. ]]></body>
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