{"product_id":"the-silent-woman-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-paperback","title":"The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Malcolm\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book not about Plath's life but about her afterlife: how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters--Plath's art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath's work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as Malcolm brings her skepticism to bear on the claims of biography to present the truth about a life, a portrait of Sylvia Plath emerges that gives us a sense of \"knowing\" this tragic poet in a way we have never known her before. And she dispels forever the innocence with which most of us have approached the reading of any biography.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment it was first published in The New Yorker, this brilliant work of literary criticism aroused great attention. Janet Malcolm brings her shrewd intelligence to bear on the legend of Sylvia Plath and the wildly productive industry of Plath biographies. Features a new Afterword by Malcolm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Malcolm's previous books are \u003ci\u003eDiana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Crime of Sheila McGough.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.74 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756892455200,"sku":"9780679751403","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e3282ec6a7ef65e6dc71005b8efb69a4.webp?v=1780088533","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-silent-woman-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}