Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing : a novel
May Sarton (Author), Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Writer of introduction)
"This reissue of Mary Sarton's ninth novel comes at a singularly appropriate time. Hilary Stevens, a formidable personality and a poet of renown, is in her seventies. This singularly uncompromising heroine becomes the quarry of two young reporters from a national magazine whose assignment is to uncover the provenance of Hilary Stevens' poetic inspiration. In the course of their afternoon interview Hilary comes to terms with her own past as it has crystallized in a series of encounters with the Muse"--Jacket flyleaf
Print Book, English, 1974
W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1974