Reviews - The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

This book is wildly biased against Sylvia Plath as a human being from the beginning. The writer openly loves Ted Hughes to a point of fangirling. She spends an entire page criticising someone for telling her that he didn't think Sylvia was attractive and then opens the next paragraph by telling the reader that the author also doesn't think Sylvia was attractive.

Weirdly blase about the overwhelming mountain of bad behaviors and questionable life events of Ted Hughes. Feels sympathy for a man, rather than suspicion and horror when *two wives in a row* kill themselves, and the next is *two decades his junior*.

This book convinced me that Ted Hughes is a creep while making it abundantly clear that the author really loves Ted Hughes.

Shameful.

corrin's review against another edition

3.5

informative reflective slow-paced

adelheid's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional informative fast-paced

carrieeff's review against another edition

4.0

It is a biography about biographies.It's better than it sounds. It is also probably better than any actual biography that has ever been written about Sylvia Plath.