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  A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill (Hardback) By (author) Yehuda Koren, By (author) Eilat Negev

  

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  Short Description for A Lover of Unreason'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.
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  • Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
  • Published: 28 September 2006
  • Format: Hardback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Literary
  • ISBN 13: 9781861059741 ISBN 10: 1861059744
  • Sales rank: 1,265,762

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• '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.