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Sylvia Plath’s legacy inspires, harrows, and haunts the three people at the center of Little Fugue: her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, freed by her death and then imprisoned by her myth; Assia Gutmann Wevill, Plath’s rival and Hughes’s mistress, who kills herself only six years after Plath; and Robert Anderson, a young New York writer, who is obsessed with Plath’s poems and her suicide, which “forged my identity and, incidentally, ruined my life.”

Their lives intersect, transiently and directly, through some of the more dramatic social upheavals of the past decades: the ’68 student riots, the drug-addled seventies, the AIDS crisis of the eighties, the cataclysm of 9/11.

Little Fugue crackles with wit and verbal dexterity. There have been many accounts of the Plath/Hughes drama, but author Robert Anderson provides a fresh, utterly convincing interpretation of events. This is a brilliant novel of artists caught between the erotic allure of extinction and the eternal power of poetry.]]> 145961 3.08 26 9 2004 2766652 0822212889 9780822212881 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/652/2766652-m-1255975234.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/652/2766652-s-1255975234.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2766652.You_Know_I_Can_t_Hear_You_When_the_Water_s_Running_ 5.00 2 145961 3.08 26 9 1998 2584050 0534610528 9780534610524 3 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2584050.The_Ghosts_of_Iceland 2.67 3 145961 3.08 26 9 2004 1726870 0913589462 9780913589465 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187453434m/1726870.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187453434s/1726870.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1726870.Caring_for_Older_Cats_and_Dogs_Extending_Your_Pet_s_Healthy_Life 5.00 1 145961 3.08 26 9 1989 1812368 0802463614 9780802463616 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188676334m/1812368.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188676334s/1812368.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1812368.Effective_Pastor_A_Practical_Guide_to_Ministry 1.50 2 145961 3.08 26 9 1998 1516332 0820322431 9780820322438 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184567393m/1516332.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184567393s/1516332.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1516332.Ice_Age 3.00 1 In the opening story, "Mother Tongue," Anderson merges fact and fiction to penetrate novelist Norman Mailer's psyche. In "Death and the Maid," a Texas family earns $300 per body from the county to bury vagrants and prisoners next to their home. In other stories, Jimi Hendrix makes his posthumous return to Los Angeles and Leonard Bernstein receives a letter from Catherine of Siena. A woman held prisoner beneath an unspecified American metropolis is rescued amid frenzied media attention but refuses to leave her sanctuary. As we are tossed from one bizarre circumstance to the next, Anderson's sophisticated, sometimes playful prose combines the concrete with the surreal to convince us that we know very little about the world we complacently inhabit.

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