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Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
by Elizabeth Winder
Despite the long title, it's a good book. It makes me wish I had read more of Plath's work apart from "The Bell Jar," and knew more of her apart from her suicide.
This is a non fiction account of her one month stint in NYC as a guest editor for Mademoiselle. These days we'd call it a glorified internship but apparently at the time the job was a fought-for honor.
The book captures a unique episode in the city's history post WWII. What a rarified world of white gloves and urbane sophistication indeed. Fashion publishing, cocktails at the Drake and mingling with literary giants all in one summer! It almost seems hard to believe so much adventure can be crammed into thirty days.
I kept reading because I recall my own summer in NYC and can still remember the thrill of discovering the particular glamour that only NYC has. It hasn't changed.
Somewhere in all of this is a great story about a talented, ambitious young woman with an eye for beauty and a way with words. Great mini biography.
This is a non fiction account of her one month stint in NYC as a guest editor for Mademoiselle. These days we'd call it a glorified internship but apparently at the time the job was a fought-for honor.
The book captures a unique episode in the city's history post WWII. What a rarified world of white gloves and urbane sophistication indeed. Fashion publishing, cocktails at the Drake and mingling with literary giants all in one summer! It almost seems hard to believe so much adventure can be crammed into thirty days.
I kept reading because I recall my own summer in NYC and can still remember the thrill of discovering the particular glamour that only NYC has. It hasn't changed.
Somewhere in all of this is a great story about a talented, ambitious young woman with an eye for beauty and a way with words. Great mini biography.