TY - BOOK AU - Winder,Elizabeth TI - Pain, parties, work: Sylvia Plath in New York, summer 1953 SN - 9780062085498 (trade) AV - PS3566.L27 Z967 2013 U1 - 811/.54B 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York PB - Harper KW - Plath, Sylvia. KW - Women poets, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Women poets KW - sears KW - American poets N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-260); Library Journal, April 2013; Publisher's Weekly, March 2013; Library Journal; Publisher's Weekly; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult N2 - In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath's words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work which, ultimately, changed the course of her life ER -