“…I went out in a passion…”

Book review:

The House by the Sea

May Sarton (1912-1995)

American novelist, poet

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1977

288 pages

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I’m telling you, and you can tell others: this is an easy book to enjoy—all at once, or, as I do it, for 10 minutes at a time, snatched from the Sandman every night when I get into bed.

May Sarton gracefully offers the seat next to hers, looking out the window at the world as she delights in seeing it. Planting the seeds and pulling the weeds are events in her days.

The House by the Sea is intensely casual, and casually brilliant—Sarton liberally scatters the sparkles in her journal of a somewhat solitary life that she is so capably eager to share.

You won’t be surprised by the potency of her wise, wonderful, and willing words, such as

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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