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001			on1124977274
003			OCoLC
005			20200505085503.0
008			191220s2020 msu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019049567
040			_aMsSM/DLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dORX _dOCLCF _dKUA _dYDX _dNFG
020			_a9781496821225 _qhardcover
020			_a149682122X _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1124977274
042			_apcc
092			_aPlath, S. _bR755
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRollyson, Carl E. _q(Carl Edmund), _eauthor. _940302
245	1	4	_aThe last days of Sylvia Plath / _cCarl Rollyson.
264		1	_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c[2020]
300			_axvi, 235 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Narrative -- A counterfactual history -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index.
520			_a"In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet's final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath's ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath's last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes's alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes's malign view, his wife's undoing, and how biographers, Hughes, and his cohort parsed the events that led to the poet's death, form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's life"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aPlath, Sylvia. _97957
650		0	_aPoets, American _y20th century _vBiography. _939108
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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