Acclaimed short-story writer and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, Robert Anderson has written a brilliantly inventive first novel–...
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Mar 26, 2011
zespri
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A novel about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - was really looking forward to reading but think I missed the plot a bit - found it a bit too 'deep and meaningful'. Is the author the Robert of the novel? Who knows.
Did have me heading back to google to check up on a few details of their shared life, which helped fill in a few of the gaps ....
Did have me heading back to google to check up on a few details of their shared life, which helped fill in a few of the gaps ....
Feb 05, 2009
Moira
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Possibly the worst entry in the quasi-biographical-novel-about-Sylvia-Plath category, which includes 'The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted' and 'Wintering,' and which is therefore saying an awful lot. Deplorable.
Dec 29, 2009
Melinda
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I was super excited when I heard about this book, since I'm a Sylvia plath junkie/hoarder of Plath-and-Hughes-related books. But this novel was so overwritten that it bordered on being unreadable. I read the first half and then skimmed the rest.
May 29, 2008
Luke
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A fictional recounting of the torturous union of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and the resultant fallout, mixed in with a bit of chronological perspective from the third party narrarator that journeys through the major events of the past four decades.
Fantastic writing that lends itself well to the poetic nature of the subject matter. The clever narrative gets a bit lost in the three-party perspective that jumps around in time, particualrly during the survey of Vietnam protests during More...
Fantastic writing that lends itself well to the poetic nature of the subject matter. The clever narrative gets a bit lost in the three-party perspective that jumps around in time, particualrly during the survey of Vietnam protests during More...
Jul 10, 2008
Suzanne
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An okay exploration of Plath/Hughes/Assia but a bit overdone with the prose and a bit self-indulgent. Held my attention, but I skipped all of the sections titled "Robert"
Jan 23, 2008
Susan
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another novel of slyvia plath?
but apparently we needed this one.
beautiful prose; heartbreaking.
but apparently we needed this one.
beautiful prose; heartbreaking.
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