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Wintering : a novel of Sylvia Plath / Kate Moses.
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- 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.
- Americans--England--Fiction.
- Americans.
- England.
- Mother and child--Fiction.
- Mother and child.
- Authors' spouses--Fiction.
- Authors' spouses.
- Separated people--Fiction.
- Separated people.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Women poets--Fiction.
- Women poets.
- Storms--Fiction.
- Storms.
- Poets--Fiction.
- Poets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 313 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes -- the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel, her defining last collection of poems. In December 1962, shortly before her suicide, Plath moved with her two children to London from the Hugheses' home in Devon. Focusing on the weeks after their arrival, but weaving back through the years of Plath's marriage, Kate Moses imagines the poet juggling the demands of motherhood and muse, shielding her life from her own mother, and by turns cherishing and demonizing her relationship with Hughes. Wintering locates within the isolation and terror of Plath's despair remarkable moments of exhilaration and fragile hope.
- Contents:
- Morning song
- The couriers
- The rabbit catcher
- Thalidomide
- The applicant
- Barren woman
- Lady Lazarus
- Tulips
- A secret
- The jailor
- Cut
- Elm
- The night dances
- The detective
- Ariel
- Death & co.
- Magi
- Lesbos
- The other
- Stopped dead
- Poppies in October
- The courage of shutting-up
- Nick and the candlestick
- Berck-Plage
- Gulliver
- Getting there
- Medusa
- Purdah
- The moon and the yew tree
- A birthday present
- Letter in November
- Amnesiac
- The rival
- Daddy
- You're
- Fever 103
- The bee meeting
- The arrival of the bee box
- Stings
- The swarm
- Wintering.
- ISBN:
- 1400035007
- 9781400035007
- OCLC:
- 52806428
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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