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Heather Clark is an American writer, literary critic and academic. Her biography of poet Sylvia Plath, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. [1] She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962 ...
Clark is compassionate, clear-eyed, skeptical. Each chapter reads with the ease of a novel. You feel the smart of every rejection letter, share Plath’s elation in each published poem, read the recreation of her first suicide attempt with a tightening chest and reel through the night when she met Ted Hughes with drunken exultance.
Oct 27, 2020 · [ This is one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021. See the full list. ] RED COMET The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath By Heather Clark. What becomes a legend most? As suggested ...
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Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2021.
Jan 1, 2020 · Heather Clark. 4.58. 3,909 ratings821 reviews. The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES*. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act ...
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Heather Clark presents a round, multi-viewed vision of the two lives of these poets together, making it clear that it takes two to tango, even if it only takes one to die. When I purchased the book, I thought that a 937 page biography on someone who only lived for 30 years would be stuffed with superfluous filler.
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Clark delivers a brilliant scholarly exegesis in vivid prose that renders Plath's life into art. This is the major biography of this major poet that we have long awaited.-- Mary V. Dearborn, author of Ernest Hemingway: A Biography With Red Comet Heather Clark has produced a superb biography, scholarly, acutely perceptive and beautifully written.
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