{"product_id":"the-silent-woman-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-9780679751403","title":"The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes","description":"In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book not about Plath's life but about her afterlife: how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters--Plath's art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as Malcolm brings her skepticism to bear on the claims of biography to present the truth about a life, a portrait of Sylvia Plath emerges that gives us a sense of \"knowing\" this tragic poet in a way we have never known her before. And she dispels forever the innocence with which most of us have approached the reading of any biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Malcolm's previous books are \u003ci\u003eDiana and Nikon: Essays on Photography; Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession; In the Freud Archives; The Journalist and the Murderer; The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings; The Silent Woman: Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Crime of Sheila McGough.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655654773010,"sku":"9780679751403","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06bdc81e-604b-4e91-b447-2320ea587352.jpg?v=1733382054","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-silent-woman-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-9780679751403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}