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Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
Giving Up The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
Author: Jillian Becker
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 chil...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312315986
ISBN-10: 0312315988
Publication Date: 5/12/2003
Pages: 96
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Interesting commentary of a woman and her family with whom Sylvia Plath stayed for a few days just before her suicide.

Seems to be part memoir of friendship and part an effort to dispell the myth that her suicide was preventable.


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