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Product: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
Description: A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life

In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written.

Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her.

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere, a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes’s malign view, to be his wife’s undoing, and how Hughes, his cohorts, and biographers parsed the events that led to the poet’s death form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell.

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Product: SYLVIA
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Product: Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
Description: With additional material by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin and Richard Murphy.Includes a bibliography and index.
Anne Stevenson
women
biography
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Product: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Brand: Anchor
Color: Black
Anchor Books
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Product: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Brand: Anchor
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Anchor Books
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Product: The Colossus and Other Poems
Brand: Vintage
Color: Black
Vintage
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Product: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (P.S.)
Description: "I dreamed of New York, I am going there."

On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan's alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life.

Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.
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Product: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
Brand: Harper Perennial
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Product: The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
Brand: Harper
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Product: The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956
Brand: Harper
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Product: The Collected Poems
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
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Product: The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Brand: Harper Perennial
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Product: Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Product: Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Brand: Everyman's Library
Color: Brown
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