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| Original Title: | As We Are Now |
| ISBN: | 0393309576 (ISBN13: 9780393309577) |
| Edition Language: | English |
May Sarton
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.96 | 810 Users | 122 Reviews
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| Title | : | As We Are Now |
| Author | : | May Sarton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 1992 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Literature. Womens. Novels |
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So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, sustained for too short a time by the love of another person, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory.Rating Appertaining To Books As We Are Now
Ratings: 3.96 From 810 Users | 122 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books As We Are Now
A fictional novel that's presented as non-fiction. Gives insight into the plight of the elderly. The story is presented as a journal being kept by an old woman who is put into a home for the elderly. The home is run by a woman who probably thinks that she is an overworked but competant caregiver who is doing the best that can be expected. In fact, she is a cruel woman who doesn't belong in the business of caregiving. The book depicts the old woman's decline in mental health. Is she really aPostal book club round #5I'm not sure how to take this book. I felt that she was old and senile and misrepresenting the situation she was in. She was paranoid and unhappy and I don't think that the people surrounding her were out to get her. I think they were doing their job. No one else in their reviews has mentioned this but I thought it the whole time.
A startling, brave novel about a subject that most writers would ignore.
***NO SPOILERS***So many literary- and realistic fictions are on the same themes (e.g., domestic problems; coming-of-age), so I appreciate that author May Sarton did something totally different: told a simple story from the point of view of an elderly woman in a nursing home. The only other book I've read written from this viewpoint is the fantastic Water for Elephants, and it's one of the many things that makes that book great. As We Are Now, however, doesn't have the sweep of Water for
As We Are Now is told in the form of a forgotten diary of a senior-citizen woman who had been placed in a nursing home by her distant son. Caroline is mean, she is regretful, and she is disappointed. The narrator is unlikable, but sympathetic. This is potent mix, and is vastly different than most unlikable narrators (like the Humbert Humberts of the literary world). Often not portrayed, the voice if an old woman as she deteriorates into madness because she is kept captive isnt necessarily a
This short, journal/stream of consciousness narrative is a gripping read. It is easy to get caught up in the despair, hatred, and forgetfulness of Caro (Caroline) Spencer, an elderly woman put into a home after a heart attack left her unable to live on her own. Still with all her faculties, Caro finds herself in a dilapidated farmhouse/nursing home under the care of two women, Harriet and Rose, who are not the type of people who should be caring for the elderly and infirm. Instantly, Caro is at
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