The Single Hound
A Novel
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Publisher Description
In May Sarton's debut novel, a mysterious and beloved Belgian poet finds new life when a young Englishman ventures to meet her
Published under the pseudonym Jeanne Latour, Doro's poetry inspired a generation. Her teaching of great literature and philosophy also fired up the imaginations of her young pupils. Throughout her adult life, Doro's most important relationships have been those with Claire and Annette, fellow teachers who have nicknamed themselves the Little Owls and with whom she shares a close-knit friendship. Despite her full life, Doro can't help but feel that her first sixty-three years have been but a prelude to something yet to come.
The heartbreak of young poet Mark Taylor has stifled his art and well-being. In love with an older, unavailable married woman, Mark goes in search of Jean Latour, whose poetry, he believes, could be his salvation. But Mark knows nothing of the enigmatic writer's true identity, and it is in their unexpected meeting that both poets begin to find a renewed and transformative sense of self.
This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With their terminal ennui, casual sex and hip detachment, Sydney-based writer Wilding's blase characters seem right out of Southern California, yet Australia, land of menacing emptiness, is the setting of these 14 stories. The best and most powerful entry, ``The Man of Slow Feeling,'' concerns an accident victim slowly regaining his senses, for whom sex is a disorienting nightmare. In ``Beach Report,'' a surreal, comic-book-like montage, beach bums welcome a massive UFO invasion as a ``surrender to a greater force.'' In the haunting, metaphysical ``See You Later,'' a man stumbles upon wraithlike figures in a valley, but we soon realize that he may be the wraith, having just died. The one-page, title story deals, among other things, with two lesbians making love in the midst of a cocktail party. When Wilding gets away from dope-smoking writers, filmmakers and other arty types, his stories become more interesting. First serial rights to Harper's.
