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Anne Sexton: A Biography Paperback - 1992
by Middlebrook, Diane
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Nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's psychiatrist, this bestselling biography is a brilliant and compassionate portrait of a woman who thrived on making shock waves--in her work and in her life. 43 photographs.
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- Title Anne Sexton: A Biography
- Author Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-10-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ027DRE_ns
- ISBN 9780679741824 / 0679741828
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.24 x 1.04 in (20.45 x 13.31 x 2.64 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Poets, American - 20th century - Biography, Sexton, Anne
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050093
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the jacket flap
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 handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.
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- Publishers Weekly, 09/28/1992, Page 0