A World of Light

May Sarton''s celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five―between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep. Her subjects include her father the noted science historian George Sarton; people in the arts―Elizabeth Bowen Louise Brogan Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center―Marc the vigneron of Satigny in the foothills of the Jura mountains and Quig the painter of Nelson New Hampshire.