miguelf 's review for:

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

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Though a DNF, it’s mainly due to the length of this one – at 45 hours it’s a lot to get through. The amount of detail captured here is fairly vast and seems like a must read for Plath fans: for those of us who enjoyed the Bell Jar but aren’t familiar with her poetry it does become a matter of committing oneself to just a huge amount of detail on her life and work. It’s not as breezy as the equally lengthy Warhol biography that also came out in 2020. It might be one to revisit at some point and it was a top 3 on Tyler Cowen’s year-end list, but at this point I’ll have to settle for having made it through about 1/3 of it.