Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark

1152 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.Determined not to read Plath’s work as if her every act, from chil...

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informative 88%
emotional 69%
reflective 60%
dark 55%
sad 54%
challenging 46%
inspiring 26%
tense 9%
adventurous 3%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

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fast 4%

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