Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people-s dreams-
An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret vocation. A girl endures a series of initiation ceremonies to join her high school sorority. A married woman seeks relief from the dull realities of daily life. From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, twenty-four of which are collected here, along with works of journalism and extracts from her journal.
-All the pieces presented here are revealing . . . It ought to round out one-s knowledge of the writer, and, perhaps, offer some surprises. Luckily it does both.- Margaret Atwood, New York Times
-A beautiful, delicate, commanding poet.- Lena Dunham
-She embodied a seismic shift in consciousness which enabled us to feel and think as we do today, and of which she was a supremely vulnerable and willing casualty. She changed our world.- Margaret Drabble,
