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Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark.
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- ISBN: 9780307961167
- ISBN: 0307961168
- Physical Description: xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗♭2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 943-1072) and index. |
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| Subject: | Plath, Sylvia. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Plainfield Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Philip Read Memorial Library | BIO PLA | 34443000328536 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Red Comet : The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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Table of Contents
Red Comet : The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | p. xv | |
| Part I | ||
| 1 | The Beekeeper's Daughter: Prussia, Austria, America, 1850-1932 | p. 3 |
| 2 | Do Not Mourn: Winthrop, 1932-1940 | p. 29 |
| 3 | The Shadow: Wellesley, 1940-1945 | p. 52 |
| 4 | My Thoughts to Shining Fame Aspire: Wellesley, 1946-1947 | p. 79 |
| 5 | The Voice Within: Wellesley, 1947-1948 | p. 99 |
| 6 | Summer Will Not Come Again: Wellesley, 1948-1950 | p. 119 |
| 7 | The White Queen: Wellesley and Smith College, 1950-1951 | p. 138 |
| 8 | Love Is a Parallax: Swampscott, Smith College, Cape Cod, 1951-1952 | p. 171 |
| 9 | The Ninth Kingdom: Smith College, September 1952-May 1953 | p. 204 |
| 10 | My Mind Will Split Open: Manhattan, June 1953 | p. 238 |
| 11 | The Hanging Man: Wellesley, July-August 1953 | p. 259 |
| 12 | Waking in the Blue: McLean Hospital, September 1953-January 1954 | p. 283 |
| 13 | The Lady or the Tiger: Smith College and Harvard Summer School, January-August 1954 | p. 307 |
| 14 | O Icarus: Smith College and Wellesley, September 1954-August 1955 | p. 339 |
| Part II | ||
| 15 | Channel Crossing: Cambridge University, September 1955-February 1956 | p. 369 |
| 16 | Mad Passionate Abandon: Cambridge University, February 1956 | p. 396 |
| 17 | Pursuit: Cambridge and Europe, February-June 1956 | p. 425 |
| 18 | Like Fury: Spain, Paris, Yorkshire, Cambridge, July-October 1956 | p. 449 |
| 19 | Itched and Kindled: Cambridge University, October 1956-June 1957 | p. 474 |
| 20 | In Midas' Country: Cape Cod and Smith College, June 1957-June 1958 | p. 496 |
| 21 | Life Studies: Northampton and Boston, June 1958-March 1959 | p. 529 |
| 22 | The Development of Personality: Boston, America, Yaddo, April-December 1959 | p. 559 |
| Part III | ||
| 23 | The Dread of Recognition: London, 1960 | p. 585 |
| 24 | Nobody Can Tell What I Lack: London, January-March 1961 | p. 622 |
| 25 | The Moment of the Fulcrum: London, March-August 1961 | p. 641 |
| 26 | The Late, Grim Heart of Autumn: Devon, September-December 1961 | p. 663 |
| 27 | Mothers: Devon, January-May 1962 | p. 676 |
| 28 | Error: Devon, May-June 1962 | p. 700 |
| 29 | I Feel All I Feel: Devon and London, June-August 1962 | p. 717 |
| 30 | But Not the End: Devon and Ireland, August-September 1962 | p. 736 |
| 31 | The Problem of Him: Devon and London, October 1962 | p. 764 |
| 32 | Castles in Air: Devon and London, October-November 1962 | p. 798 |
| 33 | Yeats's House: London, December 1962-January 1963 | p. 828 |
| 34 | What Is the Remedy?: London, January-February 1963 | p. 854 |
| 35 | The Dark Ceiling: London, February 1963 | p. 876 |
| Epilogue: Your Wife Is Dead | p. 897 | |
| Postscript: A Poet's Epitaph | p. 929 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 939 | |
| Notes on Sources | p. 943 | |
| Notes | p. 945 | |
| Index | p. 1073 |
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