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Published
Faber & Faber, July 2005
ISBN
9780571081783
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.4cm

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'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had the quality of ruthlessness and.imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence.' Stephen Wall in the Observer

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