Recovering: A Journal

Recovering: A Journal

<DIV><B>An affecting diary of one year’s hardships and healing, by one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary memoirists</B><BR /><BR /> For decades, readers have celebrated May Sarton’s journals for their candid look at relationships, success and failure, communion with nature, and the curious stages of aging. In <I>Recovering</I>, Sarton focuses on her sixty-sixth year—one marked by the turmoil of a mastectomy, the end of a treasured relationship, and the loneliness that visits a life of chosen solitude. Each deeply felt entry in the journal, written between 1978 and 1979, is laced with poignancy and honesty as she grapples with a cold reception for her latest novel, the sad descent of a close friend into senility, and other struggles.<BR />  <BR /> Despite the trials of this one painful year, Sarton writes of her progression toward a hard-won renewal, achieved through good friendships, the levity provided by her cherished dog, and peaceful days in her garden.<BR />  <BR /> A candid account of Sarton’s revival from personal darkness back into light, <I>Recovering </I>is another stunning entry in the author’s irrepressible oeuvre.<BR /><BR /></DIV>