Lit in Translation

Your Story, My Story

Jij zegt het

Connie Palmen (born 1955)

Translated by Eileen J. Stevens, Anna Asbury

English editions

In English

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Ted Hughes speaks at last. For thirty-five years, he says, he has watched gossip, invented testimony and legend smother the truth about his marriage to Sylvia Plath, until the public saw her as a martyr and him as a monster. In a single long monologue he recalls the radiant start of their romance, the darkness that gradually took hold of her, his own hopes and terrors, rage and sorrow, and how everything after her suicide on 11 February 1963 lay in its shadow.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
267 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
United Kingdom
First published
2015 by Prometheus
Author's age
60 when first published
ISBN

9789044628104 (original)

9781542022408 (AmazonCrossing, United States)

9781542004633 (AmazonCrossing, United States)

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