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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

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The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Sylvia Plath had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark here evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and the other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over. ...Show more

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About Bay Hill Books

Bay Hill Books is an independent community bookshop in the heart of Timaru, celebrating books and the South Canterbury community. Owner and Operator, Renee Rowland aslo created the Twizel Bookshop, situated in the heart of Twizel.

Renee Rowland, Owner of Bay Hill Books and Twizel Bookshop

People love books, and stories are what make us human

Owner and Operator of Bay Hill Books and The Twizel Bookshop, Renee Rowland spoke to Stuff.co.nz recently about the opening of her second bookshop, Bay Hill Books - located on Stafford Street in Timaru:

"I’ve seen the impact independent book shops have on towns. They become a reliable part of the culture and community." she said.

"People love books, and stories are what make us human.”

“I want to get the community engaged and involved.” The Timaru shop will stock mainstream books as well as those which have been self-published. Among the titles for sale will be rare or out-of-print second-hand books about South Island farming which Rowland had curated over the years.

“I really want to preserve the stories about our heritage.” 

Bay Hill Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bay Hill Books is the trading name of Proserpina Books Ltd, a NZ owned company.
Our sister shop, The Twizel Bookshop, is located inside the Hydro Cafe, Twizel.

331 Stafford Street, Timaru, NZ 7910 | (03) 6831 387 | bayhillbooks@gmail.com

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