Crucial Conversations
Crucial Conversations is a 1975 sapphic fiction novel by May Sarton. It deals with marriage, married women, middle-aged women and runaway wives.
32 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions.
It runs to roughly 156 pages — 2–3 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Crucial Conversations
Soul-searching conversations among three people: a married couple and a friend, delving into the wife's reasons for abandoning her long marriage for a career.
Quick answers
Who wrote Crucial Conversations?
Crucial Conversations was written by May Sarton and first published in 1975.
What genre is Crucial Conversations?
It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction.
How long is Crucial Conversations?
The median edition has 156 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Crucial Conversations?
Readers who like it often enjoy La bâtarde, Mrs. Dalloway and L'Œuvre au noir.
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