Bitter fame
Subtitle: a life of Sylvia Plath
By: Anne Stevenson ; with additional material by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin, and Richard Murphy.
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: In a book that The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm called "by far the most intelligent and the only aesthetically satisfying" Plath biography, the poet Anne Stevenson narrates and illuminates the ways in which Sylvia Plath created her own legend in life and in poetry, one at odds with the posthumous myth that has grown up around her since her suicide in 1963.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-386) and index.
"A Peter Davison book."
"A Mariner book."