<![CDATA[Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath]]>

false <![CDATA[Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172717487m/210301.jpg 210301 6 This engrossing début novel depicts Sylvia Plath’s feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes—the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel, her defining last collection of poems. In December 1962, shortly before her suicide, Plath moved with her two children to London from the Hughes’s home in Devon. Focusing on the weeks after their arrival, but weaving back through the years of Plath’s marriage, Kate Moses imagines the poet juggling the demands of motherhood and muse, shielding her life from her own mother, and by turns cherishing and demonizing her relationship with Ted. Richly imagined yet meticulously faithful to the actual events of Plath’s life, Wintering is a remarkable portrait of the moments of bravery and exhilaration that Plath found among the isolation and terror of her depression 203549 14 10 2003 Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath total:276|5:57|4:83|3:93|2:33|1:10| 276 972 437 35 4 0 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 21:58:14 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 21:17:50 -0700 2009
It was hard to put down. Very well researched and written, and Kate Moses can phrase certain intangible emotions ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:51:09 -0800 2009 Sat May 02 09:27:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 17:51:30 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 18:05:26 -0700 2008
I gave it 3 stars because it ended rather aburptly and I had to go online to research the "rest of the story".

Wintering is about, of course Sylvia Plath,...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sun Mar 02 20:44:17 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 18:51:34 -0800 2008
The chapters of Wintering are each titled after one of Plath's Ariel poems, in the original s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 03 17:02:01 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:04:27 -0800 2008 2 Ariel. I read each poem with the chapter and realized how chilly her...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Feb 14 05:09:11 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 05:16:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 19:19:52 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 19:19:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 19 16:40:46 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 19:22:05 -0800 2008
The story jumps around quite a bit and is hard to follow at times. But it is richly written. ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 20 15:21:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 15:27:12 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Mar 04 22:19:13 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 22:21:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 22 07:51:32 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 06:06:25 -0700 2008
We get to see Sylvia not just as a poet or a tortured soul, we see her as a mother, a child, a lover and a friend. We see the choices and sacrifices she had to make as well as...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Jul 27 14:56:48 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 15:03:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 16:59:35 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 17:10:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 06:39:28 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 06:40:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 24 12:05:46 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 12:07:12 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 13:55:34 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 14:00:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Jul 22 11:14:58 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 11:17:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Jun 13 20:11:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 20:11:57 -0700 2008
He doesn't care - he's as close to her as the sky.

The flowers go on dreaming, kicking in their sleep like dogs.

She hates the thing inside of her that knows the bottom and nothing else.

So this is how it's going to be from now on. It's not terri...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jul 18 17:26:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 17:26:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 02 10:48:19 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 10:50:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=210301