Lara’s Reviews > Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath > Status Update
Lara
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I am so into this book! Its a very well researched biography with a fresh and feminist take on Sylvia Plath. The author has found a fresh narrative style that keeps me hooked. I just finished the part about Sylvia’s summer working as a guest editor at Mademoiselle and living at the Barbizon hotel in NYC in 1953, the summer that the Rosenbergs were executed. Sylvia would soon attempt suicide after this.
— Apr 01, 2022 08:29PM
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Lara
is 50% done
Sylvia has now met Ted Hughes and married him within months of their meeting.
Like many Plath fans, I cannot stand Ted. He treated her badly, cheated on her, left her bereft with two babies, and destroyed her last journals. Ted was a cad. Apparently Aurelia and some of Sylvia’s friends also were wary of Ted. But even if Sylvia had never met Ted, I don’t know that she would have avoided dying young by suicide…
— Apr 16, 2022 10:19PM
Like many Plath fans, I cannot stand Ted. He treated her badly, cheated on her, left her bereft with two babies, and destroyed her last journals. Ted was a cad. Apparently Aurelia and some of Sylvia’s friends also were wary of Ted. But even if Sylvia had never met Ted, I don’t know that she would have avoided dying young by suicide…
Lara
is 40% done
Fascinating, compelling.
I love learning about Sylvia’s Dostoyevsky obsession. Her development into the brilliant poet she became. I’m now on her Cambridge years. She was so courageous to move to England and forge her academic path in an era of deep sexism and amid a lot of class elitism. I come to love and appreciate her more for all her complexities.
— Apr 10, 2022 08:35AM
I love learning about Sylvia’s Dostoyevsky obsession. Her development into the brilliant poet she became. I’m now on her Cambridge years. She was so courageous to move to England and forge her academic path in an era of deep sexism and amid a lot of class elitism. I come to love and appreciate her more for all her complexities.