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Sylvia Plath by Linda Wagner- Martin

zoemacgregor12's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

anniefwrites's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective sad slow-paced
I’ve been fascinated by Sylvia Plath since I read The Bell Jar a few years ago and it blew me away. This book is super informative about the minutiae of her daily life from childhood to her death, and it paints a clear picture of a person who struggled with mental illness, perfectionism, strict gender expectations, and family trauma. It was a bit dry, but not excessively so for a biography. I do wonder how the book would have been different if the Hughes estate had allowed more access, as the author notes up front. There’s still so much we don’t know. 

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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0


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avrilconuve's review against another edition

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5.0

Impresionada y maravillada con esta biografía. Un complemento brutal para entender mejor el contexto de su obra.

elle_isobe's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

okayalej's review against another edition

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4.0

There was so much I didn't realize about Sylvia Plath. This book lays it all out objectively. I read this ahead of reading the new biography Red Comet, so as to compare.

redwavereads's review against another edition

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4.0

Very detailed and very insightful. It definitely make Plaths’ work more accessible.

It is in parts a bit too detailed. You kinda lose yourself in names of people and poems. But it is probably the best record of Sylvia Plaths’ life.

kilt's review against another edition

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1.0

Also, das ist jetzt mittlerweile mein dritter Versuch eine Biographie über Sylvia zu mögen, aber auch diese hier hat es nicht geschafft.
Es kommt mir so vor als würden alle Biographen versuchen, Sylvia immer negativ darzustellen, aber Ted (ihr Ehemann) immer als den "Guten".
Nein, so gefällt mir das nicht. Da lese ich lieber die Briefe an ihre Mutter und ihre Tagebücher. Da kommen die Informationen von der Quelle und werden nicht durch die Verblendung und voreingenommene Meinung der Biographen verfälscht.
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