American Isis. The Life And Art Of Sylvia Plath

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: St Martins Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 319 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath the first to & draw & from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archiveThe life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. & Educated at Smith, she had an epically & conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia. & She then married & the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the & sturm and drang & of & married life in the full glare of the world of English and American letters. & Her poems were & fought over, rejected, & accepted and, ultimately, embraced by readers everywhere. & Dead at thirty, & she committed & suicide by putting her head in an oven & while her children slept. & Her poetry collection & titled & Ariel became a modern classic. Her novel & The Bell Jar & has a fixed place on student reading lists. & American Isis will be the first Plath bio benefitting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library which includes & forty one letters & between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers. & The Sylvia Plath Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking Violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes, she is a modern day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself & in the literary firmament.

ISBN: 9780312640248