Wintering
Author: Kate Moses
This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath’s feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes–the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel,” ” her defining last collection of poems.,In December 1962, shortly before her suicide, Plath moved with her two children to London from the Hughes’s home….Read More
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