This engrossing d? but novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes-- the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel,"" her defining last collection of poems. In December 1962, shortly before her suicide, Plath moved with her two children to London from the Hughes's home in Devon. Focusing on the weeks after their arrival, but weaving back through...
Sylvia Plath has been resurrected and writes once again through Kate Moses.She has slid her slender, delicate hand over Moses' as a guide, and erupts upon the pages like ball of fire.The first thing that struck me, was the title. "Wintering" A Novel Of Sylvia Plath...Not A Novel About Sylvia Plath. Kate Moses is so knowledgable about Plath that she becomes her. The language is delectable,lush, and as brillant as Plath...
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Kate Moses seems to have climbed into the very soul of Sylvia Plath and brought her vividly to life on the written page with her stunning novel "Wintering." I read the novel in a 24 hour period, with a well worn copy of Plath's poetry by my side. Ms. Moses recreates the haunted last months of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. She researched her subject extensively and seemingly absorbed into her bloodstream all she read. Plath's...
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This first work of fiction by Kate Moses accomplishes the impossible: Sylvia Plath comes to life, chapter by chapter, in a way that is accessible and full of extraordinary grace. Immersing herself in the literature of and by Plath, Moses portrays the inner turmoil, spirit and longing that define the poet's genius. Plath is present in each moment of her exceptional existence, whether writer, wife, mother or simply a visionary...
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This novel is an utterly amazing piece of work. Beautifully written, it goes straight to the heart of Sylvia Plath, a tortured genius whose poetry so aptly depicted the inner demons with whom she fought for all of her short life. The book uses not only the facts of Ms. Plath's life, but also the imagery and symbols of her poetry, interwoven so completely and skillfully that the novel becomes a perfect fictional character study...
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Most readers who come to this book will already be familiar with the basic story of poet Sylvia Plath, her doomed marriage to author Ted Hughes, and her suicide at age thirty. In "Wintering," one of the Ariel poems, written in the four months before her death in February, 1963, Plath depicts the "real and bloody sacrifice" of this marriage, according to author Kate Moses, "not bodies piled in a mountain pass but her life...the...
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Sixty-five years ago today, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met at a party in Cambridge. Their connection was immediate, powerful, and violent—a portent of their future together. Almost exactly seven years later Plath would die by suicide.