The Small Room

How the central characters--students and teachers--react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing novel.

About the author

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

Summary

Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protegee of a powerful faculty member.

Product details

• Authors: May Sarton
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1976
• EAN: 9780393008326
• ISBN: 978-0-393-00832-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 348 g
• Series: Norton Library (Paperback); Norton Library (Paperback)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature