Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark

nonfiction biography poetry emotional informative reflective slow-paced

1152 pages | first published 2020

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The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.Determined not to read Plath’s work as if her every act, from chil...
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