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050	0	0	_aPS3566.L27 _bZ966 2013
082	0	4	_a92 PLA
100	1		_aWilson, Andrew, 1967-
245	1	0	_aMad girl's love song _b: Sylvia Plath and life before Ted _c/ Andrew Wilson
250			_a1st Scribner hardcover ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, c2013.
300			_avii, 368 p., [8] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-344) and index.
505	0		_aThis haunting nameless pain -- My thoughts to shining fame aspire -- The ghost of somebody else -- If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad -- Who is Sylvia? -- I myself am Heaven and Hell -- Drowning in self hate, doubt, madness -- The beginnings of "The bell jar" -- I am chained to you as you are to your dreams -- Now, Voyager -- In the depths of the forest your image follows me.
520			_aIn 1956, 23-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter--now one of the most famous in all literary history--began what has become a modern myth. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured her life and work. Before she met Ted, Plath had lived a complex, creative, and disturbing life. Her father had died when she was only eight; she had gone out with hundreds of men, had been unofficially engaged, had attempted suicide, and had written more than 200 poems. This book chronicles these early years, traces the sources of her mental instability, and examines how a range of personal, economic, and societal factors conspired against her. Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before, and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth century's most popular and enduring female poet.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aPlath, Sylvia
650		4	_aWomen poets, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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