If you enjoy reading about Plath or have a scholarly interest in her life, yes! This is an incredible, well researched, detailed deep dive. If you are not deeply interested in the subject you should probably skip it because it is long and detailed and not for you. This book will be well regarded by Plath scholars and fans alike. No Plath biography ever really lets me down, but they’re not all amazing, either. I have heard many details so far that I have not heard before.

I knew the book would be a must-have, was HOPING the audio version would have a good narrator, and this does not disappoint. The narrator is great! I like to listen at bedtime, she has a soothing, quiet, soft voice and is engaging. I just knew this one would not disappoint, since the author had access to some previously unseen/recently available-for-the-first-time materials. I haven’t reached the end yet, but I have read every Plath biography and book I have ever been able to get my hands on, and own a few on audio as well. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes and much more.Ĭlark’s clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read.' (Glennon Doyle, author of number one New York Times best seller, Untamed ) The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.

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