pickThis is more of a study of biography where the subject happens to be Sylvia Plath than a biography about Sylvia Plath. I would recommend it but it depends what you're looking for
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | 
pickThis is more of a study of biography where the subject happens to be Sylvia Plath than a biography about Sylvia Plath. I would recommend it but it depends what you're looking for
Today is 2 book-mails type of day! ? Thank you @TrishB, I haven't read this one yet. I like how we are exchanging our love of Sylvia, across oceans. The bookmarks, and oh Paris. ? ( I am yet to visit London)! That wad of stick notes adds color to my scribbles. And, I love love the card -
"Only boys can play drums," said her neighbors in Cuba, but that was before they heard Millo. That's Millo C. Zaldarriaga, Drummer, born c. 1922, Cuba. ?
Who tells your story? This book explores that question. Malcolm looks at the nature of biography, in particular, bios of Sylvia Plath to understand how this genre has framed our understanding of her (and Ted Hughes.)
I read The New Yorker excerpt years ago, but have never read the book.
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pickMalcolm's dissection of biography - as a genre - and of biographies of Sylvia Plath (and by extension Ted Hughes) is brilliant.
If I'd had all the time in the world this February, I would have reread this for the Women's Lives Club, but alas.
pickI read this as part of Rachel Syme's WLClub and was both gripped and astonished how this 200 page book spoke about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes while also serving as an excellent piece of critical writing on the biography genre.
