A Reckoning

The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and most of all a woman she knew when she was young.

About the author

May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.

Summary

When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections."

Product details

• Authors: May Sarton, Sarton May
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.09.1997
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780393316216
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31621-6
• Dimensions (packing): 13.7 x 20.7 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); FICTION / Literary; Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general