num_pages: 220
description: 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.Miss Sarton defines this book as a "picaresque novel in which all the adven-tures arc inward." It is a novel about love and the sources of poetic imagination. Through the protagonist's keen eyes, we also confront that fear of feeling which dominates our American ethos, and we are made aware of the crippling effect this fear may have on the young.
language: English
title: Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing;: A novel
titlecomplete: Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing;: A novel
genres: Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Literature, Classics, Novels, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 657
publisher: Norton