Anne Sexton A Biography

Name: Anne Sexton A Biography
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ISBN: 9780679741824

ISBN-10: 0679741828

ISBN-13: 9780679741824

Edition: 1992

Authors: Diane Middlebrook

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Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/27/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English