At Eighty-Two: A Journal

by May Sarton

Book Overview

May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second year... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393038890
• ISBN13: 9780393038897
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Closing Chapter of a Stellar Life

At Eighty-Two is an incredible though painful final journal from Sarton. If you are reading Sarton for the first time, read Journal of a Solitude or (my favorite) Recovering first, and then turn to this one. Sarton deals in this journal primarily with the diminishment of old age. Being quite ill at the time, she occassionally comes accross quite bitter, but perhaps this is what makes this journal so poignant and so important for a society that either forgets about or romantizes old age.