Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath - Brossura

Moses, Kate

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ISBN 10: 1400035007 ISBN 13: 9781400035007

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003

Riassunto

A fictional account of the last months of Sylvia Plath's life and the painful creation of her Ariel poems finds her moving with her two children to London after divorcing Ted Hughes, who is saddened by her latest writings and who works to remind her about happier times. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“Beautiful and moving. . . . Significant. . . . [Written] with lyrical dexterity and great economy. . . . [Moses] is discerning and talented.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Lyrical. . . . Moving and beautifully sustained. . . . A heroic tale.” —Los Angeles Times

“Written in lush, luminous prose. . . . An altogether new portrait . . . revelatory.” —The Boston Globe

“Moses poignantly portrays the artist as struggling mother.” —Elle

“Fantastically rich, psychologically shrewd. . . . A triumph.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

L'autore

Kate Moses was born in San Francisco in 1962 to a British father and an American mother and grew up in various parts of the United States before returning to California to attend college. She subsequently worked as an editor in publishing and as literary director at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts. In 1997 she became one of the two founding editors of Salon.com’s Mothers Who Think Web site, which led to the American Book Award—winning anthology Mothers Who Think, coedited with Camille Peri. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two children. Wintering is her first novel.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400035007
• ISBN 13: 9781400035007
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336