Pain, Parties, Work – Elizabeth Winder
New York, 1953. Glamour, fashion, scandal and all of it true.
The book accounts the platinum summer of Sylvia Plath during her guest editorship of Mademoiselle Magazine. A rich collage retold by colleagues and friends, along with insights from her personal diaries, provide an insightful milieu into the world that would fuel her ‘Bell Jar’ opus in the years after. For those who sympathize with the disquiet of a creative mind – Pain, Parties, Work is a tribute to candles that burn bright and one of those rare reads that leaves an impression long after you’ve put it down.