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A World of Light

Published
Mar 1988
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
254

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"Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." ? Choice

May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five? between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep. Her subjects include her father, the noted science historian George Sarton; people in the arts? Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Brogan, Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center? Marc, the vigneron of Satigny, in the foothills of the Jura mountains, and Quig, the painter of Nelson, New Hampshire.

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First Edition Mar 1988 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393305007
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