Wintering : a novel of Sylvia Plath / Kate Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plath, Sylvia--Fiction.

Plath, Sylvia.

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Fiction.

Hughes, Ted.

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Authors' spouses--Fiction.

Authors' spouses.

Separated people--Fiction.

Separated people.

Women poets--Fiction.

Women poets.

Storms--Fiction.

Storms.

Poets--Fiction.

Poets.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Summary:

Wintering is the Story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered. She shuts up her beloved Devonshire house and makes a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal, and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story of Sylvia Plath. In this deeply felt novel, Kate Moses creates Sylvia Plath's last months, weaving in the background of her life before she met Ted Hughes through to the disintegration of their relationship and the burst of creativity this triggered. It is inspired by Plath's original ordering and selection of the poems in Ariel, which begins with the word "love" and ends with "spring," a mythic narrative of defiant survival quite different from the chronological version edited by Hughes. At Wintering's heart, though, lie the two weeks in December when Plath finds herself still alone and grief-stricken, despite all her determined hope. With exceptional empathy and lyrical grace, Moses captures her poignant, untenable, and courageous struggle to confront not only her future as a woman, an artist, and a mother, but the unbanished demons of her past.

Contents:

1 "Morning Song" 1

2 "The Couriers" 7

3 "The Rabbit Catcher" 24

4 "Thalidomide" 34

5 "The Applicant" 40

6 "Barren Woman" 48

7 "Lady Lazarus" 64

8 "Tulips" 83

9 "A Secret" 85

10 "The Jailor" 91

11 "Cut" 104

12 "Elm" 107

13 "The Night Dances" 116

14 "The Detective" 123

15 "Ariel" 129

16 "Death & Co." 142

17 "Magi" 152

18 "Lesbos" 158

19 "The Other" 164

20 "Stopped Dead" 169

21 "Poppies in October" 172

22 "The Courage of Shutting-Up" 174

23 "Nick and the Candlestick" 180

24 "Berck-Plage" 183

25 "Gulliver" 190

26 "Getting There" 194

27 "Medusa" 201

28 "Purdah" 213

29 "The Moon and the Yew Tree" 219

30 "A Birthday Present" 227

31 "Letter in November" 233

32 "Amnesiac" 237

33 "The Rival" 242

34 "Daddy" 248

35 "You're" 255

36 "Fever 103[degree]" 258

37 "The Bee Meeting" 261

38 "The Arrival of the Bee Box" 265

39 "Stings" 273

40 "The Swarm" 275

41 "Wintering" 280.

ISBN:

031228375X

OCLC:

50810662