Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook

Her Husband:  Hughes and Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook is a 361-page hardcover published in 2003 by The Penguin Group, 2003.  Both the dust jacket and book are in very good condition, with no faults noted.  Book Summary Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers.  Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and brought new significance to his poetry. In this stunning new biography of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook presents a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted--and nourished--his entire life by the aftermath of his first marriage.  How marriages fail and how men fail in marriages is one of the book's central themes. Drawing on a trove of newly available papers, Middlebrook presents Hughes as a complicated, conflicted character:  sexually magnetic, fiercely ambitious, immensely caring, an