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A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill

by Yehuda Koren (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes's mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Robson Books
Published: 28 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 1861059744
ISBN 13: 9781861059741
Book Overview: A biography of Hughes's mistress, Assia Wevill, this book views the Sylvia Plath-Ted Hughes relationship and marriage, and presents the journey that shaped her life. This is a story formed by the pull of fatal attraction and obsessive love, fidelity and adultery, cruelty and tenderness, dependence and rebellion, envy, and self-sacrifice.

Media Reviews
Unforgettable in its intensity. Easily the best work ever on Hughes and his world. One of the most wonderfully well-written and powerful literary biographies I have encountered. Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday
Author Bio
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev are both distinguished literary journalists and authors, and have been researching Assia Wevill's story for 15 years. In the course of their research they have unearthed a mass of personal documents, and interviewed all the key witnesses, most of them speaking here for the first time. Koren and Negev's previous book, In Our Hearts We Were Giants, a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust was published in eight languages, and inspired two documentary films.