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Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
Audience Adults
Published 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
ISBN 9780307961167
Bib Id 2414016
Copyright 2020
Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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06577cam a2200541 i 4500
LCCN
2019-041635
ISBN
9780307961167 (hardcover) $40.00
0307961168
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B Plath C
Title
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
2020 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York :
Copyright Date
©2020
Description
xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Note
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 943-1072) and index.
Contents
Prologue -- The beekeeper's daughter : Prussia, Austria, America, 1850-1932 -- Do not mourn : Winthrop, 1932-1940 -- The shadow : Wellesley, 1940-1945 -- My thoughts to shining fame aspire : Wellesley, 1946-1947 -- The voice within : Wellesley, 1947-1948 -- Summer will not come again : Wellesley, 1948-1950 -- The white queen : Wellesley and Smith College, 1950-1951 -- Love is a parallax : Swampscott, Smith College, Cape Cod, 1951-1952 -- The ninth kingdom : Smith College, September 1952-May 1953 -- My mind will split open : Manhattan, June 1953 -- The hanging man : Wellesley, July-August 1953 -- Waking in the blue : McLean Hospital, September 1953-January 1954 -- The lady or the tiger : Smith College and Harvard summer school, January-August 1954 -- O Icarus : Smith College and Wellesley, September 1954-August 1955 -- Channel crossing : Cambridge University, September 1955-February 1956 -- Pursuit : Cambridge and Europe, February-June 1956 -- Like fury : Spain, Paris, Yorkshire, Cambridge, July-October 1956 -- Itched and kindled : Cambridge University, October 1956-June 1957 -- In Midas' country : Cape Cod and Smith College, June 1957-June 1958 -- Life studies : Northampton and Boston, June 1958-March 1959 -- The development of personality : Boston, America, Yaddo, April-December 1959 -- The dread of recognition : London, 1960 -- Nobody can tell what I lack : London, January-March 1961 -- The moment of the fulcrum : London, March-August 1961 -- The late, grim heart of autumn : Devon, September-December 1961 -- Mothers : Devon, January-May 1962 -- Error : Devon, May-June 1962 -- I feel all I feel : Devon and London, June-August 1962 -- But not the end : Devon and Ireland, August-September 1962 -- The problem of him : Devon and London, October 1962 -- Castles in air : Devon and London, October-November 1962 -- Yeats's house : London, December 1962-January 1963 -- What is the remedy? : London, January-February 1963 -- The dark ceiling : London, February 1963 -- Epilogue : Your wife is dead -- Postscript: A poet's epitaph.
Summary
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s.
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