{"product_id":"american-isis-9781250043443","title":"American Isis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith College, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the Sturm und Drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected, accepted--and ultimately embraced by readers everywhere. At age thirty she committed suicide by putting her head in an oven while her children slept on the floor above in rooms she had sealed off from the poisonous gas. \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poems she wrote at white-hot speed during her final months, became a modern classic. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, has become a part of the literary canon, appearing on student reading lists worldwide. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Carl Rollyson gives us a new biography of Plath that shows her as a powerful figure who embraced both high and low culture to become the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature, a writer who wanted nothing less than to become central to the mythology of modern consciousness. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Isis\u003c\/i\u003e is the first biography of Sylvia Plath to use materials newly deposited in the Ted Hughes archive at the British Library--including forty-one letters between Plath and Hughes--to create a fresh and startling look at this American icon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Rollyson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.48w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250043443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Rollyson is professor of journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York and the author of twelve biographies including \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress\u003c\/i\u003e and, with his wife, Lisa Paddock, \u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag: The Making of an Icon\u003c\/i\u003e. He reviews biographies regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Washington Post, The New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e, and other papers. He writes a column every two weeks for bibliobuffet.com. He lives in Cape May Court House, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44298787324019,"sku":"9781250043443","price":29.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_a29a3be0-b127-4037-acb8-58c0bde3aa07.jpg?v=1770814705","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/american-isis-9781250043443","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}