Sylvia Plath

Method and Madness

By Edward Butscher

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408 Pages, 6 x 9

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Trade Paper, $23.95 (US $23.95) (CA $30.95)

Publication Date: October 2003

ISBN 9780971059825

Rights: WOR

Schaffner Press (Oct 2003)

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Overview

This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide in made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation.

Reviews

"Butscher explodes, once and for all the romantic myth of Sylvia Plath as extremist poet who died for the sake of art . . . the very opposite seems to be true." —Jonathan Yarley, Washington Post Book World

Author Biography

Edward Butscher is the biographer of Adelaide Crapsey, Conrad Aiken, and Peter Wild; author of poetry collections Child in the House and Poems about Silence; and the editor of Silvia Plath the Woman and the Work. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

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