Red Comet

Heather Clark

Sixty years after her spectacular debut as a poet, a brand new, comprehensive biography of Sylvia Plath appears. Red Comet returns to us the exceptionally talented woman so long overshadowed by her tragic end. Heather Clark reconstructs Plath's stormy development as a poet and intellectual. We read about her determination not to follow a conventional path, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her struggles with a completely inadequate mental health system, her years in Cambridge and her explosive relationship with Ted Hughes. Red Comet is about a life of complete dedication – not to death but to art.