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MIDDLEBROOK, Diane - Her Husband, Hughes and Plath - A Marriage.

Title: Her Husband, Hughes and Plath - A Marriage.
Description: Viking, Viking. 2003, xx,361pp, Illustrated. Hardcover. Dustjacket with some light signs of use, book in very good condition. Pakketzending. Traces the more than six-year marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, which ended with Plath's suicide, profiling Hughes as a complicated and magnetic figure possessing a shrewd and ambitious business sense, and noting how many blamed him for Plath's death. 'The Narrative of HER HUSBAND cannot help but fascinate, providing new information and insight. . The results are considerably persuasive' Michico Kakutani, NEW YORK TIMES Joining the recent spate of books about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Middlebrook's is sure to be the gold standard. Astutely reasoned, fluidly written and developed with psychological acuity. . Middlebrook breaks new ground in tracing the couple's interactive creative relationship, suggesting that neither would have produced his or her best poetry without the other. . a balanced assessment of the legacy of a troubled marriage and the works of art it engendered. Publisher's Weekly.

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Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers
- Book number: 59360