{"product_id":"red-comet-a-new-york-times-top-10-book-of-2021","title":"Heather Clark: Red Comet [2020] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Book of 2021**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetermined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clark, Heather","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47072318390611,"sku":"XV81787332539","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":50677110997331,"sku":"9781787332539","price":42.86,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/clark-heather-heather-clark-red-comet-2020-hardback-1152879604.jpg?v=1743289171","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/red-comet-a-new-york-times-top-10-book-of-2021","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}