A review by soavezefiretto
Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath

5.0

There's no way I could review this. Just this: anyone who thinks Sylvia Plath is the poems in "Ariel", or her suicide, or her marriage to Hughes, or even her journals - this image will (again) be shattered by this book. Syliva Plath's letters are a study in how we lie to ourselves by lying to otheres and in doing so expose everything about us. Here Plath is more human and flawed than she ever wanted to be, and I love her for it. Such a waste, such a waste. Read this even if you're afraid of very big heavy books. It is so worth it. All of it.