Luke Ferretter’s Sylvia Plath’s Fiction: A Critical Study (University of Edinburgh Press) is a visionary, meticulous, and necessary work. It is a book both long overdue and ahead of its time. It is such a good book that there is no possible way I can see to write a review that could attempt to do it justice. In Sylvia Plath’s Fiction , Ferretter provides “close readings of Plath’s texts...in their historical and cultural contexts, of the significant place that Plath’s fiction plays in the vast, diverse and powerful body of work she has left us” (15). In each of the five chapters, plus the introduction, Ferretter gives a very careful and clear reading; a realized look at this under-studied genre of Plath’s. In the introduction, he gives a breakdown of Plath’s stories by time period, as a way to identify the works he will discuss and to provide an authoritative chronology of their composition. This chronology is an immensely useful tool. For the uncollected or unpublished stories foun
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