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Silent Woman Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes

by Janet Malcolm

ISBN13: 9780679751403
ISBN10: 0679751408
Condition: Standard
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From the moment it was first published in The New Yorker, this brilliant work of literary criticism aroused great attention. Janet Malcolm brings her shrewd intelligence to bear on the legend of Sylvia Plath and the wildly productive industry of Plath biographies. Features a new Afterword by Malcolm.

Review:

"Rich and theatrical."--The New York Times Book Review.

"The Silent Woman is one of the deepest, loveliest, and most problematic things Janet Malcolm has written. It is so subtle, so patiently analytical, and so true that it is difficult to envisage anyone writing again about Plath and Hughes. She is the cat who has licked the plate clean. It has an almost disabling authority about it, a finality like a father's advice."--James Wood, The Guardian (London)

"Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."--Christopher Benfey, Newsday

"There is more intellectual excitement in one of Malcolm's riffs than in many a thick academic tome . . . She is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . . able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."--David Lehman, Boston Globe

"It is the best-written and most stirring polemic of the year. Completely brilliant."--David Hare, The Times (London)

"The Journalist and the Murderer was a deeply thoughtful exposure of the moral problems of in-depth journalism . . . [The Silent Woman] contains some of the best thinking I know on both the practical and the philosophical problems of biography."--Bernard Crick, New Statesman & Society

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ISBN:
9780679751403
Subtitle:
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Author:
Malcolm, Janet
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Canon (literature)
Subject:
Biography as a literary form
Subject:
Canon
Subject:
Women poets, American
Subject:
Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963
Subject:
Executors and administrators
Subject:
Hughes, ted, 1930-
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
First Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
2209
Publication Date:
March 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.74x5.54x.61 in. .66 lbs.

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