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4.64 AVERAGE
4.64 AVERAGE
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For a46 hour looking audio book I was interested in every bit of the story, which really surprised me. But it's well written and am amazing sorry full of details on writing, poetry, relationships, challenges and accommodations in Sylvia Plath's life. While a sad story out shines a light on mental health, women's lives and successful artists and writers of the times. Excellent biography, one of the best I've read.
i dont really know how to move on from this an go into reading another book
Many would ask how it is possible to write a 1300 page biography about a woman who only lived for thirty years. Those people clearly don't understand just how much incredible and ground-breaking writing Sylvia Plath managed to produce in such a tragically short period of time. Clark paints a vivid and human portrait of a gifted artist who struggled with the restrictions and expectations placed on her by her society, going into tremendous amounts of detail about her family life, her early relationships, her struggles with her mental health and her traumatic experiences at the hands of psychiatrists. Clark draws on huge volumes of Plath's personal writing including diaries and letters to bring this often misunderstood figure to life as a real living, breathing, brilliant and flawed woman. She affords similar generosity to other polarising figures from Plath's life, including Ted Hughes, Assia Wevill and her mother, Aurelia Plath. Where others have demonised these individuals in the wake of Plath's suicide, Clark also shows them compassion and presents a balanced portrait that acknowledges their own strengths, struggles and flaws along with Plath's. While many previous Plath biographies have scried though her poems to find signs that make her tragic end seem like the inevitable conclusion of a life possessed by a powerful poetic spirit, Clark's work feels as though it does the opposite. Reading it I was overwhelmed by the sense that her death was deeply preventable. Had the freezing winter not left her isolated and miserable, had the medication she was on been better monitored, had in-patient mental healthcare not been such a terrifying prospect, there might have been a very different outcome and she might have lived decades more. The loss to the literary world is incalculable and the loss to her many many friends and loved ones immeasurable. For anyone who loves Plath's poetry, Red Comet is an undertaking that will leave you devastated, but it is worth every page.
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I listened to this 45 hour audiobook over the course of 9 days and I genuinely feel like I lived an entire other lifetime.
I listened to this 45 hour audiobook over the course of 9 days and I genuinely feel like I lived an entire other lifetime.
Mag gut sein, aber viel zu lang
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challenging
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