Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories

ISBN-13: 9780571351732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 48 str.

Sylvia Plath

Opis

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Venturw begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seemingly lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back.' Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself home, grapples withmortality in motion.

Recenzje

'A masterly ratcheting up of tension over 40 pages; short, simple sentences that slip between the ribs . . . the story is essential reading for diehard fans of Plath's work.' Sunday Times

O autorze

Plath, SylviaSylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.