The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
A tightly argued investigation of the lives and reputations of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes that blends literary criticism, biography and reporting to examine the couple’s marriage, the poet’s suicide and the controversies over how her life and work were later represented. The book focuses less on establishing incontrovertible facts than on revealing how biographers, editors and journalists select, shape and sometimes manipulate private material to create public narratives, raising questions about ethics, truth and the making of literary myth.
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- Published
- 1994
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- American
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- English
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