I checked this book out of the library recently to honor April poetry month. The book is written in poems by Stephanie Hemphill with footnotes that chronicle what is going on in Sylvia's life at the time. The book is a quick way to read about the life of Sylvia Plath, but the author has spent an amazing amount of time and research to come up with 246 pages of poetry to detail Sylvia's life. The author's note clarifies that although the book is based on real events and real people, it is foremost a work of fiction. It seems that society has recently been sensitive to the fine line between fact and fiction. Pretty soon all historical books will come with this disclaimer. One of my favorite reads in the past year or so was The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Defintely a fictional genre book, but I certainly learned alot of history reading it!
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