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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts: Sylvia Plath: method and madness
Published by Harper Colophon/Pocket (1980) & (1977), NY, 1980
First Edition
Condition: 2 VG PBs. 1st PB ed/2d. In the brief 13 years of her writing life, Plath wrote a substantial body of prose, only a portion of which survives, most of it in the form of stories. This collection brings togethe the best of her surviving stories, earliest dating from 1950, plus 5 of her best pieces of journalism and a selection of excerpts from her journals. Ted Hughes gives an illuminating introduction that further documents her work. Includes Sweetier Pie and Gutter Men, All the Dead Dears, Tongues of Stone, Among the Bumblebees. PLUS: Full biography of author of The Bell Jar, the gifted poet whose short life has become a legend. The golden-haired girl who won all the prizes; suicidal theme of The Bell Jar; naive, ambitious student of Letters Home; brilliant, anguished author of Ariel; the masochistic goddess bent on destruction. Drawing on letters, published works, and interviews with those who knew her, Butscher probes her violently conflicting feelings for her parents, her husband, children, the unrelenting pressures that drove her to seek fame and recognition, the anger and despair that are the source of her greatest poems.
