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Letters Home | 
| Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 357391
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060974915
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780060974916
ASIN: 0060974915
Publication Date: April 8, 1992
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Condition: good condition!
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 Happy Girl May 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Letter Home contains all of the letters that Sylvia wrote to her Mother, Warren and Mrs Prouty from 1950-1963 and span her university life, up to her marriage to Ted Hughes and beyond.
The best thing about this book is the enthusiasm for study, success and a family that Plath shows in the letters.
As a fan I often imagine her as a moody person like her poems sometimes suggests but Plath appears happy and full of life and love in each letter.
I particularly enjoyed the letters from the time she met Ted and started a family with him as their plans and gaining success were so well deserved and interesting.
Letters Home comes with an introduction by Plath's Mother who also adds a few bits of context throughout.
I stopped reading after the birth of her second child as the letters became quite sad and as a fan I knew what was going to happen and didn't want to ruin the way the book showed a very happy side of Plath.
I particularly liked the following passage that Plath wrote advising a boy suffering a breakdown similar to hers:
`When he dies, his marks will not be written on his gravestone. If he loved a book, been kind to someone, enjoyed a certain colour in the sea - that is the thing that show whether he has lived.'
I recommend this to all Plath fans.
A Must October 23, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
From Aurelia Plath's intimate introduction and comments throughout to Sylvia's personal words and insights, I can't praise this book enough. Sylvia's growth as a writer and a woman are charted here. Her relationship with Mrs. Prouty is more intimately revealed as well. A must!
Sylvia Plath-An insight April 16, 2000
25 out of 30 found this review helpful
This book gives an great insight into the mind of one the most incredible writers ever. All her thoughts and feelings are expressed so wonderfully. Even in her letters she keeps the same dry wit and rage that draws so many people to her. She was an incredible writer and this is just another example of her fine work.
 Sad August 30, 1999
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
Honestly, I don't know how to review this book. Sylvia Plath has inspired a lot of curiosity about her life since she committed suicide and left a mass of interesting poetry and bad prose in her wake. I will admit that she has intrigued, and still intrigues me. I just have to wonder about a few things: why would her mother publish this book of correspondence during her lifetime? Perhaps she was seeking to establish a view of her daughter as a real, breathing, doubting human being, not just as some kind of feminist icon (and if you believe Plath was a feminist in the modern, PC version of the word, just read her journals). I wouldn't doubt that; the bond between Aurelia Plath and her daughter was undoubtedly strong, though imperfect (as are all parental relationships). But these letters. . .perhaps they will be of interest to scholars in the future, excavating the mines of a minor 20th-century poet seeking motivations for some of her more famous poems. . .I don't know. I don't mean to belittle either Sylvia or her mother, but I don't know why this uninteresting book was published.
From her own words to her own mother--a great collection March 10, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Letters Home offers a great look at the unseen side of Plath--the side her mother was allowed into. Here, one can see the woman behind her works, and is allowed to travel with her during her scholastic years until her death. A very moving and personal view from in own words.
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