Wintering by Kate Moses
The story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is one of the best-known, well-documented and controversial in the annals of poetry, romance and tragedy, yet the sequence of poems in Plath's volume Ariel, which seems to work inexorably towards her suicide, was rearranged for publication by Hughes. Using Plath's original order as a framework, this novel recreates her last months, beginning with her initial elation at moving from Devon to London following Hughes' departure and ending as she prepares optimistically for spring's rebirth. It is a searing story of resurrection, female power and hope, told with remarkable empathy and sensibility and bringing to life a woman of precious gifts.
Amazingly moving and tender, as well as beautifully wrought - Suzi Feay, Independent on SundayMoses has recreated a life of compelling intensity, and some of the writing is wonderful.. the chapters set in Court Green, the Hughes's ancient manor in Devon, depict a fragile, unsustainable idyll: the descriptions of the garden with its daffodils and broad beans, and its orchards of apples destined to rot, are vividly evocative - Jessamy Calkin, Daily TelegraphInstead of carrying around the heavy facts of Plath's life and work, she has inhabited the poet, seeing through her eyes, using her language as easily as her own ... The strength of this book is its almost poetic distillation of reality. - Julie Morrice, ScotsmanA must for Plath fans. - Big IssueMoses' Plath is brilliant, self-absorbed, pathologically jealous, inconsistent - except where her writing and her children are concerned. ...It is striking that so lyrical a novel can be so unsentimental about artistic production. ...WINTERING is a heroic tale about writing in the face of despair, about art as the most cunning weapon one can bring to a marriage. - Regina Marler, LA TimesThe strength of this book is its almost poetic distillation of reality. Moses creates inspired evocations of scenes from Plath's life, crystallising singular events into images that speak above their own weight... There is much to
Until recently, Kate Moses worked as a staff writer and editor with the arts website Salon.com. She has also been an editor of fiction, poetry and non-fiction at Berkeley's renowned North Point Press and been literary director of Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco's oldest literary centre. Since 1992 she has been a literary advisor to the Lannan Foundation, a leading philanthropic supporter of literature in the US. Moses' criticism and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, and she was a contributor to the Salon Guide to Contemporary Literature edited by Laura Miller (Viking Penguin), and co-editor with Camille Peri of the US national bestseller "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood", which was shortlisted for an American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340818879 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340818875 |
| Titel | Wintering |
| Autor | Kate Moses |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2003-02-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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