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Giving Up. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker

Giving Up. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker

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Giving Up is Jillian Becker’s intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet’s life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple’s two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia’s final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes’s infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide, and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendship between two very different women. This 2002 Schwartz Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 1863951253 SKU: 1558772 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

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