Giving up
Subtitle: the last days of Sylvia Plath
By: Jillian Becker.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia -- Last years; Becker, Jillian, 1932- -- Friends and associates; Plath, Sylvia -- Friends and associates; Plath, Sylvia -- Death and burial; Americans -- England -- History -- 20th century; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Suicide victims -- England -- Biography
Genres: History; Biography.
Description: "Giving Up is Jillian Becker's intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia's final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes's infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendhsip between two very different women."--Jacket.