{"product_id":"9780679751403","title":"The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book not about Plath’s life but about her afterlife: how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters—Plath’s art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven as Malcolm brings her skepticism to bear on the claims of biography to present the truth about a life, a portrait of Sylvia Plath emerges that gives us a sense of “knowing” this tragic poet in a way we have never known her before. And she dispels forever the innocence with which most of us have approached the reading of any biography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016845476080,"sku":"9780679751403","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679751403_p0.jpg?v=1763605699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679751403","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}