May Sarton
Joanna and Ulysses
For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think
and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.
She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her
own heart. The holiday was to be a solitary experience. But that was before Joanna
met Ulysses, the mistreated little donkey.
"Miss Sarton is particularly adept at presenting intelligent women intelligently:
Joanna is a fine addition to her gallery of portraits. She is famous, too, for
catching the flavor of background, and she gives us the fresh, gull-white, wind-bright
bravery of the Greek islands indelibly. She is an aristocrat whose patent is
clarity of mind." Book Week
"Simple, elegant. . . . Miss Sarton knows how to be tender and romantic, melancholy
and amusing, all at once." New York Times Book Review
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