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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
18 reviews
ashbeth2011's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol
maryclaire92's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Minor: Cancer, Antisemitism, and Abortion
mmaguire's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cancer and Antisemitism
Minor: Abortion
rockmeamadeus's review against another edition
5.0
- I believe Heather Clark knows Sylvia Plath better than Sylvia herself. There isn't one aspect of her life that wasn't talked about. This is the first time I feel familiar with a person through a biography.
- Related to the previous point, I cried, which is new for me upon reading biographies.
- Despite having studied The Bell Jar, I did not realise how autobiographical it was before reading this book. Even smaller, more trivial elements are rooted in Sylvia's real life. In the same way, some poems become much easier to interpret
- This book didn't feel tedious to read like some biographies are. It reads as easy as a novel, at the end of each chapter I just wanted to keep reading.
I truly believe this is a book one must read if they've ever read anything by Sylvia Plath. It is necessary to understand her writings, and her life illustrates the psychiatry of her time, a system which failed to understand women's suffering and the impact of patriarchy on their psychology.
A genuine, major recommendation.
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
desarroi's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Animal death
paperknotbooks's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Antisemitism
ewitsell's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
wiktoriapiet's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
itsinourhands's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Suicide, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Suicide attempt
janeanger's review against another edition
2.75
Moderate: Death and Suicide
Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, and Classism