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The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.
Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, 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.
Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.
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American literature, Poets, biography, Authors, american, Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963, New York Times reviewed, Women poets, Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Figure Biographies & Memoir, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Poets, Biography, American Women poets, American Poets, BiographiesShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2022, Penguin Random House
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2021, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2020, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A., Knopf
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2020, Alfred A. Knopf
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2020, Jonathan Cape
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
2020, Penguin Random House
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath is a 2020 book by Heather Clark that examines Sylvia Plath. It was selected for the New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2021" list and was the a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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