Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings
by:
Sylvia Plath (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780571309146 (0571309143)
Publish date: July 25th 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
20th Century,
Poetry,
Female Authors,
Short Stories,
Diary
I am not really trusting much of anything Ted Hughes edited. Will narrow my search from here on with unabridged, unedited works of Sylvia Plath. I do think she was not especially gifted in the prose department. Perhaps too mediated by her desire to be a big-time writer published in the popular mags ...
Sylvia is such an exquisite prose writer, too bad I can only digest a few stories a day - that's the trouble with short stories! Even her diary entries are so much different from what/how people normally write. She's able to turn banalities like the neighbors' lives into fine pieces of prose or a la...