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Though Plath has become a modern legendary figure, this is the first fully informed account of her life as a poet. With new material of all sorts, Stevenson recounts the struggle between fantasy and reality that blessed the artist but placed a curse on the woman. Photos.
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Bitter Fame, Anne Stevenson, Blake Morrison
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- Released
- 1989
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Bitter Fame
- Subtitle
- A Life of Sylvia Plath
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anne Stevenson, Blake Morrison
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 413
- ISBN10
- 0670818542
- ISBN13
- 9780670818549
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Poetry, Love, Family, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Friendship, USA, Children, American Literature, England, Marriage, Journey, Lyric, Women's Biographies, Suicide, Depression, Mental Illness, Female Writers
- Original title
- Bitter fame
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Though Plath has become a modern legendary figure, this is the first fully informed account of her life as a poet. With new material of all sorts, Stevenson recounts the struggle between fantasy and reality that blessed the artist but placed a curse on the woman. Photos.