{"product_id":"mad-girls-love-song-sylvia-plath-and-life-before-ted-9781501142710","title":"Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted","description":"\u003cb\u003eA biography of Sylvia Plath, a literary icon who continues to haunt, fascinate, and enthrall even now, fifty years after her death.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn February 25, 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter--now one of the most famous in all of literary history--was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a \"big, dark, hunky boy.\" Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured her life and work. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore she met Ted, Plath had lived a complex, creative, and disturbing life. Her father had died when she was only eight; she had gone out with literally hundreds of men, had been unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide, and had written more than two hundred poems. \u003ci\u003eMad Girl's Love Song \u003c\/i\u003echronicles these early years, traces the sources of her mental instability, and examines how a range of personal, economic, and societal factors--the real disquieting muses--conspired against her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth century's most popular and enduring female poet. \u003ci\u003eMad Girl's Love Song \u003c\/i\u003ereclaims Sylvia Plath from the tangle of emotions associated with her relationship with Ted Hughes and reveals the origins of her unsettled and unsettling voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Wilson is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of four acclaimed biographies, a book about the survivors of the \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Lying Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Talent for Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Different Kind of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath in a Desert Land. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492676145426,"sku":"9781501142710","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8f76449-3f48-4d94-88c3-f7fc90a53799.jpg?v=1730603369","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mad-girls-love-song-sylvia-plath-and-life-before-ted-9781501142710","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}