Small Room

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1976 - Fiction - 249 pages
Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a powerful faculty member.

How the central characters—students and teachers—react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing novel.

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I
15
II
30
III
44
IV
53
V
64
VI
86
VII
96
VIII
106
XI
139
XII
156
XIII
166
XIV
182
XV
199
XVI
210
XVII
226
XVIII
241

IX
118
X
129

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About the author (1976)

May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.