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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Publication date July 1, 1990
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780395538463
ISBN-10 0395538467
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight 1.15 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $10.95
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike.

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Hardcover
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from Houghton Mifflin (August 1, 1989)
9780395453742 | details & prices | List price $19.95
Paperback
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from Mariner Books (May 1, 1998)
9780395937600 | details & prices | 413 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Recounts the troubled life of the American poet and uses her unpublished letters and journals to depict the feelings that led her to suicide
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from Houghton Mifflin (July 1, 1990)
9780395538463 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $10.95
About: "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years .

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