Middle-aged marriage counseling - with ruffles of chiffon speech,
elite scenery (Boston, beach), and countless repetitions of the
theme: let those inner feelings flow forth to the one you love,
even angry inner feelings. Singer Anna Lindstrom Fraser, 35, is a
veritable Etna of feelings, "a prisoner of my own rage." Anna, who
married 40-ish husband Ned for safety "after years of struggle and
insecurity," is stressed by the demands of her concert career (she
solos with the Boston Symphony and such). And though she bubbles
with love for Ned, she rages at him too - because he hides his
feelings behind the facade of a proper Boston banker. (Ned's
reticence is partly a reaction to his widowed mother's longtime
moanings.) Furthermore, Ned is increasingly silent, doesn't even go
to Anna's concerts, and can't even say "I love you." Finally, then,
after a visit to Ned's irritating, pathetically lonely mother, Anna
forces him deep into his past: Could his father have been a
suicide? Has Ned buried his anger at his father all these years?
And after Ned hears Anna sing brilliantly in Dallas (fueled by her
own anger), he realizes the potential of expressed anger. He
dredges up old angers. He cries. So Ned and Anna are closer and
ready to accept both bitter and sweet - together. Soothing
backgrounds, sound relationship-therapy points made again and again
- ("I am becoming the prisoner of your ethos") but unrelievedly
talky. (Kirkus Reviews)
The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments. Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both anger and love.
"An amazing novel. . . . It ventures into new territory and opens fresh vistas into character and temperament."— Cleveland Plain Dealer
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