The Silent Woman
Author | : Janet Malcolm |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781847085665 |
ISBN-13 | : 1847085660 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Silent Woman written by Janet Malcolm and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silent Woman is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography. Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer, In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's controversial Bitter Fruit, to discover how Plath became the enigma of literary history, and how the legend continues to exert such a hold on our imaginations.