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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

byHeather Clark

Red Comet examines the Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, combining Heather Clark's clear narrative with the perspective of a biographical portrait. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of biography & autobiography and literary criticism. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A.

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780307961167