American Isis
: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
9780312640248, 0312640242
Hardback / With dust jacket
$29.99 US
Biography & Autobiography / Literary
336 pages
I was disappointed in American Isis. I would like to find a biography that might help interested students understand Sylvia Plath and her work. This book is choppy and seems to take a smug attitude toward the subject. The author could have tried to help make sense of a poet who seems well-known but is not; whose work is part of the American experience and yet seems that people know very little about her as a human being. I was really hoping that this title might help people like me, not an English major nor a psychology major, understand Plath. This particular book just confused me more.
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