
Journal of a Solitude
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Narrated by:
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Donna Postel
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By:
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May Sarton
May Sarton's parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her "real" life - not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude - both an exhilarating and terrifying state. She likens writing to "cracking open the inner world again", which sometimes plunges her into depression. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. Sarton's garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain.
Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton's pilgrimage inward.
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A relic of mid-century clubby, white publishing, and almost entirely forgotten now, Sarton gives a bravura performance of name-dropping, self-delusion about her significance as an "artist", and complaining that her fans -- women artists and closeted gay boys -- who won't leave her alone. This gets in the way of occasionally lovely observations about the bitter blessings of being alone -- even though she's not alone for more than a few hours for this entire year of "solitude"!
Students of male and female authors still in the canon might find it mildly interesting because she slept with a lot of them, apparently. Otherwise, this should be a hard pass.
The narrator's performance was quite good, though.
Terrible book by self-important, forgotten author
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