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As We Are Now: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780393309577
ISBN: 0393309576
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 134
Publication Date: 1992-10
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
A novel in the form of a diary, this story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and been deposited by relatives in an old people's home. Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory. "I shared the anger and the righteous indignation which I felt behind every line."--Madeleine L'Engle. Reissue.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Elder Disintegration and Nursing Home Horrors
This is not a new book or a cheerful one. When it was first published, I was not aware of it, nor would I have been interested then, more than thirty years ago when I was in my early forties.
This is a book that should still be read by anyone involved in or concerned about the care and treatment of elders and by any senior citizen who dares to explore what wasting away in an old-style nursing home might have been like for a thoughful, sensitive old woman. We can hope that senior care ... Read More
Rating:  - Powerful and timeless
I first read this novel in college for a sociology class. Some 20+ years later, I've just re-read -- and re-discovered -- the power and timelessness of May Sarton's writing.
What I originally thought was a novel about elder abuse and the indignities of old age, I now recognize is a much deeper narrative of love and loss, hope for renewal, and ultimately rage and revenge. It is a short novel, but packed with insights that stay with you for a long time.
Definitely well worth ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful
A searing look at the hopelessness of despair, loneliness and old age, May Sarton's As We Are Now is a powerful study of a woman's resolve to relinquish herself by any means possible from the depths of the anger and anguish she feels from her surroundings. Told through the journals of Caro Spencer who has moved into a "home," not due to a lack of mental strength but of a physical frailty that leaves her unable to live alone. She keeps the journals at first as a record of her days as she fears she is losing ... Read More
Rating: - The Most Dangerous Emotion
This was my first experience with May Sarton, and I was fully impressed with her writing. Her main character, Caroline Spencer, is a heart-breaking gem. I wanted to take her into my home, like Evelyn with Mrs. Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. As We Are Now is written in the form of a journal kept by a woman consigned to a "home" after a heart attack makes her unable to live alone any longer. Initially, she keeps the journal to fight her fear of losing her memory and her mind in what ... Read More
Rating: - Do these places really exist?
This was a real eye opener. It really makes one think if there are really nursing homes that would treat their patients the way Caro and the others were treated. Caro was a very strong willed woman who refused to give in the daily humiliation brought on by Harriet and Rose the owners. In the end she may have gotten her revenge, but at what price?
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