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As We Are Now: a Novel
by May Sarton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393083721
- ISBN 13
- 9780393083729
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
A$33.92A$28.83
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About This Item
Signed by May Sarton on the title page. Hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by W.W. Norton, 1973. A fourth printing copy. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. The story of Caroline Spenver, a 76 year old retired teacher, frail in body, but definitely not frail in mind. 133 pages. Black boards over wheat colored cloth covered spine, with the author name and title in orange and black on the spine. Boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased. The signature by Sarton appears to also have a short two word inscription, her handwriting is fairly small so the additional words are difficult to decipher. Edges of the text block are clean, binding is tight and square. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages besides the signature. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
Reviews
On Feb 27 2014, a reader said:
As We Are Now is a slim novel, first published in 1973, the same year as Journal of a Solitude. The seed for the novel appears in Journal of a Solitude in Sarton's horror at the first nursing home her friend and gardener was placed in, transposed into the last months of the life of a former high school math teacher, Caro Spencer, who had an independent, unconventional life until a heart attack put her at the mercy of her brother and then an abusive nursing home. The novel is an prescient and intense exploration of one woman's psychological responses to that abuse, in the form of her journals of her experience, and the actions she takes to end the abuse.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-650
- Title
- As We Are Now: a Novel
- Author
- May Sarton
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393083721
- ISBN 13
- 9780393083729
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- New Hampshire
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Hampshire;
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