Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar.
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath’s words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life.
Thoughtful and illuminating, featuring line drawings and black-and-white photographs, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 offers well-researched insights as it introduces us to Sylvia Plath — before she became one of the greatest and most influential poets of the twentieth century.
- Author
- Elizabeth Winder
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Harper
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-208549-8
- EAN
- 9780062085498
- Genres
- biography, history, poetry, memoir, feminism, historical, american
- Release date
- 2013
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