The Magnificent Spinster

May Sarton’s powerful and profound novel of an extraordinary life, and of one woman’s efforts to preserve the force and vitality of her experiences on the pages of a book For the second time in my life—and I am now seventy—I am embarking on an effort which may well come to nothing but which has possessed my mind, haunts, and will not let me sleep.   From her opening statement, Cam, the narrator of The Magnificent Spinster , declares her grand intentions: to write a novel—a worthy and import