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 and reselected for publication by Hughes, while the record of the period when she wrote it is fragmentary. Inspired by Plath s original order, which has never been published, this deeply felt novel recreates her version - a tale of one woman s survival and triumphant renaissance after the death of her marriage, which captures her profoundly poignant, courageous struggle to balance motherhood, artistry and shattered faith. Written with lyrical grace, it is a remarkably imaginative, empathetic response to the voice and spirit that blaze forth from Plath s masterpiece.
An amazingly moving and tender novel, as well as beautifully wrought.. Moses has achieved the extraordinary: found something new to say about Plath - Independent on SundayBeautifully written: Moses's research has obviously been exhaustive, but it is worn as lightly as air ... she has inhabited the poet, seeing through her eyes, using her language as easily as her own. - ScotsmanA new writer of startling, lyrical intensity - Times Literary SupplementAbsorbing ... brave and strangely beguiling - Daily MailVery consuming: Moses has recreated a life of compelling intensity - Daily TelegraphBreathtaking ... a convincing, sympathetic, but unflinching evocation of the subtle tensions and passions of Plath's psyche. - Yorkshire Post
Kate Moses was born in San Francisco in 1962 to a British father and an American mother, and grew up in various parts of the United States before returning to California to attend university. She subsequently worked as an editor in publishing and as literary director at San Francisco s Intersection for the Arts, and in 1997 became one of the two founding editors of Salon.com's Mothers who Think website, which led to the American Book Award-winning anthology MOTHERS WHO THINK, co-edited with Camille Peri. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two children. WINTERING is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340818886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340818883 |
| Title | Wintering |
| Author | Kate Moses |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2003-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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