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"Among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . . able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."—David Lehman, Boston Globe
In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book not about Plath’s life but about her afterlife: how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters—Plath’s art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath’s work.
Even as Malcolm brings her skepticism to bear on the claims of biography to present the truth about a life, a portrait of Sylvia Plath emerges that gives us a sense of “knowing” this tragic poet in a way we have never known her before. And she dispels forever the innocence with which most of us have approached the reading of any biography.
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- ISBN: 9780307830616
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- ISBN: 9780307830616
- File size: 2007 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 1560
- Text Difficulty: 12
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure:1560
- Text Difficulty:12
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