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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the grimmest accounts of growing old I ever read. It’s told with unflinching honesty by a perceptive elderly woman who’s been put in a nursing home. Effective for engendering empathy for vulnerable older people, at least it was thought provoking for me when I read it many years ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4601065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I read that gave a true understanding of the frustartaions of aging. At the time my parents we still just beyond middle age and strong. If I had already lived through their later years, their slow failing, their time in the nursing home - first Dad for three and a half long ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61081227">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a sad book to read, but well done. Sarton really captured the trapped, desperate feeling of what a person (in this case, an elderly person in a nursing home) must experience when s/he encounters undeserved (and unexplainable) cruelty &amp; hatred at the hands of caregivers, and feels powerless ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6503995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say, it's May Sarton. I found this gem in a used bookstore while on vacation and read it in one day. Her use of description is what hooks me. It's elagant and fresh.<br/><br/>This is a story of a 76 year old woman who is put into a nursing home by her brother. It is written as a journal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60763208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A finely crafted novella about aging and the indignity of being &quot;stored&quot; in a nursing home. It was written in 1973 and I have to ask, &quot;Is it true today?&quot; I love Caro's spirit, but am uncomfortable with the book. (The fact that I had just moved my mother to an Alzheimer's unit thr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44674569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wanted to add a book from my semi-distant past. An old girlfriend turned me on to May Sarton many moons ago.. I haven't read her in years, but did read many of her books. This one still comes back to me from time to time..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting because it was well-written, but it was depressing to read and I didn't like the ending at all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book...no wait. I bought this tiny powerful book years and years ago because when I was in high school my teacher Martha was doing a dissertation on May Sarton whom I had never heard of and I was impressed and there were whispers and outright discussions that martha was a big lez and I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25994567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My introduction to May Sarton, read sometime in the late 1970s.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As We Are Now: A Novel by May Sarton (1992)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A librarian once described May Sarton's style as, &quot;You can smell the snow!&quot;  True.  This was a sad story and I had to keep reminding myself that it was written thirty years ago.  Times were different with fewer choices.  ]]></body>
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