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Title: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Condition: New
Subtitle: Faber Stories
Author: Sylvia Plath
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0571351735
EAN: 9780571351732
ISBN: 9780571351732
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: 03/01/2019
Description:

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.

'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back.'

Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

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