9780679751403-0679751408-The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

ISBN-13: 9780679751403
ISBN-10: 0679751408
Edition: Reprint
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679751403
ISBN-10: 0679751408
Edition: Reprint
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 224 pages

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (ISBN-13: 9780679751403 and ISBN-10: 0679751408), written by authors Janet Malcolm, was published by Vintage in 1995. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature, Theatre, Women, Specific Groups, Writing, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. 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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