Sylvia Plath: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0701131268
- ISBN-13
- 9780701131265
- Series
- Sylvia Plath
- Category
- Poets, American
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Linda Wagner-Martin
Description
By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plath's life. By this, she humanizes Plath and brings her from the status of myth and legend to the normality of a talented woman who guides her life by her continuous attempts to achieve her literary aims.
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