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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) by Linda Wagner-Martin (1999-08-14)

By: Linda Wagner-Martin
Narrated by: Trisha Patricks
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Publisher's Summary

Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition, there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's Birthday Letters.

The book is published by Palgrave MacMillan. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Readers who are familiar with Plath's writing and want to know more about its personal and professional contexts would do well to begin with this succinct, commonsensical study." (Library Journal)

©1999, 2003 Linda Wagner-Martin (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks

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