{"product_id":"a-closer-look-at-ariel-a-memory-of-sylvia-plath-by-nancy-hunter-steiner","title":"'A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath' by Nancy Hunter Steiner","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eA close, personal memoir of Sylvia Plath by Nancy Hunter Steiner, who knew Plath at Smith College and shared part of the undergraduate world that would later be mythologised, flattened, argued over, and endlessly re-read. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"621\"\u003ePlath before “Plath” became the cultural object — brilliant, ambitious, difficult, funny, exacting, socially alert, and already intensely aware of the codes women were expected to perform. Steiner writes from proximity rather than omniscience, remembering the young woman she knew while also circling the later impossibility of writing about Sylvia Plath without writing through legend, grief, projection, and literary possession. A good companion piece for readers of Plath’s journals, letters, \u003cem data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"990\"\u003eAriel\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Stevenson’s biography, Janet Malcolm’s \u003cem data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1054\"\u003eThe Silent Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, or anyone interested in the strange afterlife of women writers once their lives become part of the reading apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1580\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber in 1974. Copyright Nancy Hunter Steiner, 1973. Good reading copy with visible cover handling, light staining\/marking, rubbing, and some edge\/corner wear. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45705573072979,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-16T200522.295.png?v=1781604349","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/a-closer-look-at-ariel-a-memory-of-sylvia-plath-by-nancy-hunter-steiner","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}