Themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer Along with illuminating readings of the poems Thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that wouldĬhange the course of poetry in English and much more.Ĭlark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill,Īnd other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes aĭeeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring ofįirst-rate poems. Unenlightened mental-health industry her Cambridge years and Well-meaning, widowed mother her troubles at the hands of an To become a conventional woman and wife her conflicted ties to her In transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as sheĮxplores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not Stories even before she became a star English student at Smith Collegeĭetermined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, fromĬhildhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture Young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and Records and new interviews - Heather Clark brings to life the brilliantĭaughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very Unpublished letters and manuscripts court, police, and psychiatric With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials - including New biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literaryĪnd intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the
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