About this title: At the time of her suicide in October 1974, Anne Sexton, 45, occupied a central position on the American poetry scene. Today, her reputation is tangled up with that of Sylvia Plath, whom she knew, and tainted with images of monster or victim. This biography, written with the full co-operation of Sexton's family and her principal psychiatrist who released three years of audiotaped therapy sessions, reveals and pivots around the creative relationship Anne Sexton struck with an incurable illness. Suffering from a mental disorder that eluded diagnosis, Anne Sexton underwent intensive ...
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Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1991
Description: Near Fine in Trade Paperback. No Dustjacket. 6 x 9" A solid copy; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ read more
Edition: No edition stated
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Virago, London
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781853815102ISBN:1853815101
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Crease on upper, right corner of front cover. Small crease in bottom, right corner. Previous owners name written on first page. No crease in spine. Tight, clean book. xxiii, 488p. : ill., ports.; 20 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Bibliography: p454-459. Includes index. Photos, Appendix, Index. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. : Random House Inc, 1992
ISBN-13:9780679741824ISBN:0679741828
Description: Near fine softcover. Bit of smudging, light edgewear, erased pencil marks on ffep. First Vintage Books Edition. "This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried 'kill-me-pills' in her handbag the way ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin C 1991
Description: Second Printing. 488pp. Index. Bibliography. A few b/w photos in text. Tall 8vo. HC. Green cloth spine, bright gold lettering. BIOGRAPHY. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffep, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A model of the biographer's art, a harrowing and uplifting tale of a gifted woman's life, that of Anne Sexton, one of the most widely read poets of recent decades. Very minor edge wear to clean DJ. Library name stamped on top & bottom edges, charge-out slip on bfep, no other library ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 10/27/1992
ISBN-13:9780679741824ISBN:0679741828
Description: New. Paperback. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780679741824ISBN:0679741828
Description: Very Good. Signed by Author Trade Paperback--Very Good----(INSCRIBED by author)--Clean and bright with only slightest of shelf wear. 498 pages with index and photography. read more
"Diane Middlebrook knows her subject well, and Linda Gray Sexton (Anne's daughter) attests to that in her book entitled "45 Mercy Street: A Journey back to my Mother: Anne Sexton". She might've received a lot of flack from the media because she not only revealed the identity of dr Martin Orne, who saw Anne for years, but also the contents of some of the tapes that were used during Anne's therapy. Middlebrook knew how to be sensitive about her subject and so doesn't reveal "too much". In fact, the reader obtains a balanced view of an ill, but talented woman. For anyone interested in doing a study of this poet, this is a MUST read (and the only one available about Anne Sexton's life)."
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