The modern American author describes everyday experiences and conveys her feelings of frustration and anger over her attempts to write in solitude[...]

"Prolific poet and novelist, author of six nonfiction books and heaped with academic honors, Sarton has fashioned her journals, sonatas as she calls them, into a distinctive literary form: relaxed yet shapely, a silky weave of reflection, sensuous observation and record of her daily round, with the [...]

By the Belgian born American poet and novelist, a memoir-journal, in which she describes her first happy year in her new home by the sea.[...]