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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
The Silent Woman Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Author: Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography. Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer, In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's controversial Bitter Fruit, to discover how Plath became the enigma of lit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781862077331
ISBN-10: 1862077339
Publication Date: 7/7/2005
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Granta Books
Book Type: Paperback
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A biography of previous biographies, though semi-interesting of an idea it was not what I had bargained for when reading the book. I feel like I know more about Ted Hughes' sister than I do the two poets themselves.
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