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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Mar 28th, 1995
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.74in - 5.54in - 0.61in - 0.66lb
- EAN: 9780679751403
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Women
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What people are saying
Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024, forthcoming). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
After In Cold Blood, I thought the idea was to report as if it were a novel. But Janet Malcolm, whom I revere, introduces a subtlety. In The Silent Woman, there is an important qualifier: “bad novels.” Any thoughts, @praddenkeefe and @DavidGrann? https://t.co/TljXKxOpBc
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and book critic.
The @strandbookstore has made this book a STAFF PICK!! Sitting next to my hero, JM! I took Malcolm’s writing on literary feuds (The Silent Woman, In the Freud Archives, etc) as my model, structuring the book around a series of interviews. https://t.co/E3xZi1AzwN
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. https://t.co/uHeZCz8ahz
Today's book recommendation: "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes," Janet Malcolm’s meta-biography about Sylvia Plath, looks at the levels of literary merit and invasiveness in the various Plath biographies, Ada Calhoun writes. https://t.co/d5pQANVWtF
Praise for this book
"Rich and theatrical."--The New York Times Book Review.
"Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."--Christopher Benfey, Newsday
"There is more intellectual excitement in one of Malcolm's riffs than in many a thick academic tome . . . She is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . . able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."--David Lehman, Boston Globe
"It is the best-written and most stirring polemic of the year. Completely brilliant."--David Hare, The Times (London)
"The Journalist and the Murderer was a deeply thoughtful exposure of the moral problems of in-depth journalism . . . [The Silent Woman] contains some of the best thinking I know on both the practical and the philosophical problems of biography."--Bernard Crick, New Statesman & Society
What people are saying
Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024, forthcoming). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
After In Cold Blood, I thought the idea was to report as if it were a novel. But Janet Malcolm, whom I revere, introduces a subtlety. In The Silent Woman, there is an important qualifier: “bad novels.” Any thoughts, @praddenkeefe and @DavidGrann? https://t.co/TljXKxOpBc
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and book critic.
The @strandbookstore has made this book a STAFF PICK!! Sitting next to my hero, JM! I took Malcolm’s writing on literary feuds (The Silent Woman, In the Freud Archives, etc) as my model, structuring the book around a series of interviews. https://t.co/E3xZi1AzwN