Loving Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne,

Book cover of Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Book description

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne-a superfan and scholar-radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide and…


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You don't have to be a Sylvia Plath super fan or even know much about her to get immersed in this smart investigation of her life and legacy.

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