Gill Hornby
All Hellbent on their Own Destruction
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
By Elizabeth Wurtzel
Quartet 432pp £12.50
The American poet Anne Sexton – celebrated, like the other American poet Sylvia Plath, for her suicide – once burned her finger a teensy little bit at a dinner party, while she was striking a match. The incident is recalled here by a fellow dinner guest:
For the next two hours her pain was a presence in the room larger than that of any of the guests: ice was brought... her ululations rose and fell, her husband comforted her... The guests tried to speak of other things, but it proved impossible: it was the pain that
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Twitter Feed
How to ruin a film - a short guide by @TWHodgkinson:
Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer
Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
literaryreview.co.uk
How to ruin a film - a short guide by @TWHodgkinson:
Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer
Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
literaryreview.co.uk
Give the gift that lasts all year with a subscription to Literary Review. Save up to 35% on the cover price when you visit us at https://literaryreview.co.uk/subscribe and enter the code 'XMAS24'