Red comet: the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
More Details
ISBN:
9780307961167
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
| Grouped Work ID | 89c18d65-d6d8-1392-a61e-3959976a0a85 |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | red comet the short life and blazing art of sylvia plath |
| Grouping Author | heather l clark |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-07-31 05:08:39AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-08-02 05:13:03AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Clark, Heather L.
author_display
Clark, Heather L.
available_at_catalog
Eva H. Perry Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
collection_catalog
Biography
detailed_location_catalog
Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
Green Road Community - Biography
Middlecreek Community - Biography
North Regional - Biography
Northeast Regional - Biography
Oberlin Regional - Biography
Remote Storage - Biography
Southeast Regional - Biography
Green Road Community - Biography
Middlecreek Community - Biography
North Regional - Biography
Northeast Regional - Biography
Oberlin Regional - Biography
Remote Storage - Biography
Southeast Regional - Biography
display_description
"An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark here brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, MA who had poetic ambition from a very young age, and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories before she became the star English student at Smith College. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over"--
format_catalog
Book
format_category_catalog
Books
id
89c18d65-d6d8-1392-a61e-3959976a0a85
isbn
9780307961167
last_indexed
2025-08-02T09:13:03.547Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
local_callnumber_catalog
B PLATH
owning_library_catalog
Wake County Public Libraries
owning_location_catalog
Eva H. Perry Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
primary_isbn
9780307961167
publishDate
2020
publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Biographies
Plath, Sylvia
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Plath, Sylvia
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
title_display
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
title_full
Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark
title_short
Red comet
title_sub
the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath
topic_facet
Plath, Sylvia
Poets, American
Poets, American
Solr Details Tables
item_details
| Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Location | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:746967 | 7497527 | Middlecreek Community - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | MID | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497522 | Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | EVA | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497513 | Remote Storage - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497526 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497523 | Northeast Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | NER | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497520 | Southeast Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | SER | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497518 | Remote Storage - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497525 | Green Road Community - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | GRE | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497521 | Remote Storage - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497516 | Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | EVA | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497515 | North Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | Checked out | NOR | |||||
| ils:746967 | 7497519 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B PLATH | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR |
record_details
| Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:746967 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Alfred A. Knopf | [2020] | xxix, 1118 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
scoping_details_catalog
| Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Is Home Pick Up Only | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Home Pick Up PTypes | Local Url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:746967 | 7497527 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497522 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497513 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497526 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497523 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497520 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497518 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497525 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497521 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497516 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497515 | Checked out | Checked out | false | false | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:746967 | 7497519 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false |