Pre-Owned American Isis : The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath 9780312640248

from lauriebrown54

When I was in school around 1970, we were told that Sylvia Plath committed suicide because her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was an arrogant egotist who used her as a typist and suppressed her creativity and that it was his infidelity that finally drove her to suicide; it was the feminist stand at th...

from pksteinberg

The role of a biography is to narrate a story. And as a storyteller, the biographer reveals who the subject is to him/her. This is part of the biographer's agenda; and every biography has one. In American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, Carl Rollyson tells the story of who Sylvia Plath is...

from JAshleyOdell

I feel bad about piling on here, especially since I received it through the First Reads program and never like giving a low review to those books (even though I'm always honest and will do it if necessary), but......this was terrible. Honestly. It's inaccessible for readers who aren't already Pla...

from lauriebrown54

When I was in school around 1970, we were told that Sylvia Plath committed suicide because her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was an arrogant egotist who used her as a typist and suppressed her creativity and that it was his infidelity that finally drove her to suicide; it was the feminist stand at th...

from pksteinberg

The role of a biography is to narrate a story. And as a storyteller, the biographer reveals who the subject is to him/her. This is part of the biographer's agenda; and every biography has one. In American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, Carl Rollyson tells the story of who Sylvia Plath is...