Description: "May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write . . . and a young, mischievous female donkey who . . . has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course . . . and . . . the story include(s) two cats and as many human beings as are necessary".--THE NEW YORKER.
Brief description: May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.