![]() ![]() Another episode, which Plath described in no uncertain terms, occurred in February 1961, when Hughes beat Plath so severely she suffered a miscarriage. “I remember,” Plath wrote, “hurling a glass with all my force across a dark room instead of shattering the glass rebounded and remained intact: I got hit and saw stars.” Clark writes of the passage: “Plath’s colon suggests that she ‘got hit’ by the ricocheting glass, not by Hughes” - a conclusion contrary to the one many other readers have reached. ![]() The ensuing altercation caused Plath to report in her journal that the fight left her with a strained thumb and Hughes with claw marks on his cheeks. In May 1958, when Plath was teaching at Smith, she saw Hughes strolling on campus with a student. Portions of “Red Comet” are deeply moving, but a tendency to downplay Hughes’s violence will likely attract critics. ![]()
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The victim is named Marta Dickenson and as a successful accountant and a loving mother, she is the last person suspected to be targeted for a hit. On the Upper East Side, a woman is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, missing her valuables. You never seem to get tired of reading about them. Visiting Eve and Roarke in CALCULATED IN DEATH is like catching up with old friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found - murdered. There's a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects - and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. 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What about as an adult? Reading The Truants changes Jess's life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "On par with Olive Kitteridge But where Olive woos, Eva Gordon captures.A poignant, utterly beautiful story of perspective and hope."- Cheryl Grey Bostrom, author of Sugar Birds "A big-hearted family saga, suffused with grace and kindness, featuring a cast of appealing characters who would be right at home in Jon Hassler's Staggerford or Richard Russo's Empire Falls."- Adrianne Harun, author of A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain But as her desire for privacy collides with her worsening memory, Eva may find herself in a pickle she can't get out of. Too much change, too much togetherness, too much of an over-crowded life she never wanted. They'll be one big family-but only Breezy and Brent think it'll be a happy one. Then Breezy announces she's getting married, and they'll be moving to her new husband's rundown family farm, where he lives with an elderly uncle. 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