RED COMET

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, c omprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatri c treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as s he explor...[Llegir més]