Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
Clark, Heather L.2020
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Place reservation for Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia PlathDetermined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Heather Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English.
Main title:
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark.
Author:
Clark, Heather L., author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2020.
Collation:
xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781787332539 (hbk)
Dewey class:
811.54BPLA
Language:
English
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BRN:
520380
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