Assia
(Book)
Author
Published
[Blacksburg, Virginia] : Noemi Press, Inc., [2023].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781934819920, 1934819921
Status
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status |
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Carpenter-Carse Library - New Materials Area | FIC Simonds | On Shelf | |
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - Charles Montgomery Gray - New Materials Area | FIC SIM | Vermont Book Award Finalist 2024 | On Shelf |
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Published
[Blacksburg, Virginia] : Noemi Press, Inc., [2023].
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781934819920, 1934819921
Notes
General Note
"A novel"--Cover.
Description
"With the lyric beauty of the poet she is, Sandra Simonds gives us a fresh portrait of Assia Wevill, a woman previously conceived mostly as a consort, a homewrecker, or a femme fatale. Simonds' novel refuses to be bound by the pedantry of what we think we know about Assia Wevill's life, reimagining timelines, history, and Assia's inner life and creative work to bring her to life as never before. Assia lacks heroes and villains, a limiting theme of past renditions of this story, giving us not just Assia, but Sylvia Plath, David Wevill, Ted Hughes, and even Assia's young daughter Shura in their troubled, beautiful humanity. Assia is non-linear, but never drops the thread of Wevill's life, instead moving back and forth in time to help us better grasp the choices she, and the people in her orbit, made. The book deftly enfolds and interrogates the mysteries and mythologies of Hitler's Germany, stateless people, Sylvia Plath, Palestine on the brink, and swinging London."--,Review from Emily Van Duyne.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Simonds, S. (2023). Assia . Noemi Press, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simonds, Sandra. 2023. Assia. Noemi Press, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simonds, Sandra. Assia Noemi Press, Inc, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Simonds, Sandra. Assia Noemi Press, Inc., 2023.
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