Rough magic
a biography of Sylvia Plath
by Paul Alexander
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This volume is a biography of American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The author's account of Plath's life and death reveals her roles as a girl, woman, wife, mother, and author. A writer from a very young age, Plath endures the death of her father at a young age. Throughout high school and college, Sylvia continues to write and excel in school. After a summer internship in New York City, Sylvia attempted suicide for the first time. This would be one of many hardships she would endure: depression, shock treatments, rejection from publishes, and, perhaps worse, the infidelity of her husband, Ted Hughes, who she believed she would have a happy life with.
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Rough magic: a biography of Sylvia Plath
1999, Da Capo Press
in English
- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
0306808897 9780306808890
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-381) and index.
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Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of Plath's consciousness and passions. Her work includes the autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, and such collections as The Collosus, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems.
Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research, Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life - including her turbulent marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes - in a biography that stands alone in its compassionate view of this fiercely talented, deeply troubled artist.
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