Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Paperback

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Paperback

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Paperback

by Heather Clark
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Book Overview

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.

"One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." --Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath's work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more.

Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. 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.
ISBN9780307951267
Author Heather Clark
PublisherVintage
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages1184
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Paperback

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Paperback

By Heather Clark

About Heather Clark

HEATHER CLARK is the author of Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, one of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2021, as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a "Book of the Year" in The Guardian, The Times, The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, an NEH Public Scholars Fellowship, and a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship. Clark's work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Poetry, Time, Air Mail, Literary Hub, PN Review, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University and lives outside New York City.

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