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Title: Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses ISBN: 0-312-28375-X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (25 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: nothing new here
Comment: i have read many of the books about sylvia plath as well as her own works. this book takes a small period of her life before her death, probably the worst years of plath's tragic life. this reads like an addendum to the biography written by diane middlebrook.
Rating: 5
Summary: Plath Resurrected!
Comment: Sylvia Plath has been resurrected and writes once again through Kate Moses.
She has slid her slender, delicate hand over Moses' as a guide, and erupts upon the pages like ball of fire.
The first thing that struck me, was the title. "Wintering" A Novel Of Sylvia Plath...Not A Novel About Sylvia Plath.
Kate Moses is so knowledgable about Plath that she becomes her.
The language is delectable,lush, and as brillant as Plath. And the vocabulary, well let me put it this way, I kept my dictionary near me throughout the reading. Absolutely superb.
Moses uses Plath's last book of poetry, Ariel, as her chapters. Daddy, Lesbos, Fever 103, Ariel, and of course, Wintering. She brings the reader into Plath's state of mind, her thoughts, her feelings for Ted, even surprisingly, her happiness.
The reader will feel the dead of winter inside their bones, the moisure freezing inside their nostrils, smell Plath's sour breath down the back of their necks, hear the ringing of phones, bells, and the coughing of sick children.
"She couldn't wait for the baby bird to die, gasping in it's shoe box with its brave mournful cheeping. Ted taped the box to the bathhose and hooked the gas stove. She was relieved, ashamed at her relief. The birds innocent misery an oppression she was desperate to escape." - WINTERING-
Sylvia Plath was not a victim, nor weak. If anything, it is amazing she lasted for as long as she did. I only wish it would have been longer. I shall end this with her own voice...
"I simply cannot see where there is to get to." -ARIEL- 1960
Rating: 2
Summary: Novel =Fiction
Comment: "Wintering", by Kate Moses is a fiction novel about the last months of Sylvia Plath's life. She uses poems and journals by Ms. Plath to help her with writing her tale, but this is fiction, and listed under fiction. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is a non-fiction book about the very real brutal murders of a family (the Clutters) in Kansas in the late 1950s, their killers, their capture and subsequent execution. Capote used techniques of writing fiction to tell the true story of the Clutter murders, but he did not use fiction to tell his story. He wanted to make it an interesting story, not just a journalistic report. Truman Capote had access to most of the actual people involved in the Kansas murders. But "In Cold Blood" is a non-fiction/true story with no fiction in it.
"Wintering" cannot be compared to "In Cold Blood," anymore than it can be compared to "Fatal Vision," another non-fiction true crime book. This "novel" about Sylvia Plath is an attempt to tell the last month's of Sylvia Plath's life. You cannot compare a non-fiction true crime book to a novel about Plath's last months on earth.
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Title: Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook ISBN: 0670031879 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Ariel : Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath ISBN: 0060931728 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Karen V. Kukil, Sylvia Plath ISBN: 0385720254 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker ISBN: 0312315988 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Collected Poems Reissue by Sylvia Plath ISBN: 0060909005 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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