The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Janet Malcolm

224 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction biography poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Ja...

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informative 86%
reflective 70%
challenging 43%
emotional 23%
dark 20%
sad 10%
tense 10%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%
inspiring 3%

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medium 35%
fast 16%

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