{"product_id":"9781250023155","title":"American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath—the first to draw from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the sturm and drang of married life in the full glare of the world of English and American letters. Her poems were fought over, rejected, accepted and, ultimately, embraced by readers everywhere. Dead at thirty, she committed suicide by putting her head in an oven while her children slept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poetry collection titled \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e became a modern classic. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e has a fixed place on student reading lists. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Isis\u003c\/i\u003e will be the first Plath bio benefitting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library which includes forty one letters between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers. The Sylvia Plath Carl Rollyson brings to us in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Isis\u003c\/i\u003e is no shrinking Violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes, she is a modern day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself  in the literary firmament.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111389053168,"sku":"9781250023155","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250023155_p0.jpg?v=1769891903","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250023155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}