The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes girlish revelatory journey to the heart

revelatory journey to the heart of our metropolitan world

She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear

Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage

he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948

and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes girlish revelatory journey to the heartAuthor Contributor(s): Malcolm, Janet Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 28 1995 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. "Among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . . able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of