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Bitter fame : a life of Sylvia Plath
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Bitter fame : a life of Sylvia Plath

by Anne Stevenson, Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin, Richard Murphy

This biography of Sylvia Plath explores how the poet constructed her own identity and legend during her lifetime, contrasting her self-creation with the posthumous myths that arose following her death in 1963.

Accession 22951 ISBN 0670818542 Publisher Viking
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