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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By Clark, Heather
- ISBN
- 9780307961167
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 11, 2020 | Arts & Humanities
In this exhaustive biography Clark (The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes) examines the life of one of the most important American writers and the most famous woman poet of the 20th century. Unlike other biographies of Plath (1932–63), Clark's traces her subject's literary and intellectual development rather than concentrating on her undoing through suicide. "To recover Plath from cliché," Clark quotes extensively from previously ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
