Description: Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath, Paperback by Knutsen, Kimberly, ISBN 0875807259, ISBN-13 9780875807256, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Set in the frozen wasteland of Midwestern academia, The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath introduces Wilson A. Lavender, father of three, instructor of women's studies, and self-proclaimed genius who is beginning to think he knows nothing about women. He spends much of his time in his office not working on his dissertation, a creative piece titled "The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath." A sober alcoholic, he also spends much of his time not drinking, until he hooks up with his office mate, Alice Cherry, an undercover stripper who introduces him to "the buffer"--the chemical solution to his woes. Wilson's wife, Katie, is an anxious hippie, genuine earth mother, and recent PhD with no plans other than to read People magazine, eat chocolate, and seduce her youngneighbor--a community college student who has built a bar in his garage. Intelligent and funny, Katie is haunted by a violent childhood. Her husband's "tortured genius" both exhausts and amuses her. The Lavenders' stagnant world is roiled when Katie's pregnant sister, January, moves in. Obsessed with her lost love, '80s rocker Stevie Flame, January is on a quest to reconnect with her glittery, big-haired past. A free spirit to the point of using other people's toothbrushes without asking, she drives Wilson crazy. Exploring the landscape of family life, troubled relationships, dreams of the future, and nightmares of the past, Knutsen has conjured a literary gem filled with humor and sorrow, Aqua Net and Scooby-Doo, diapers and benzodiazepines--all the detritus and horror and beauty of modern life"--
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Book Title: Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath : a Novel
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Kimberly Knutsen
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women Authors, Family Life, Diaries & Journals, Literary
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Fiction
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
