{"product_id":"mary-ventura-and-the-ninth-kingdom-a-story","title":"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Plath’s] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways. . . . Look carefully and there’s a new angle here — on how, and why, we read Plath today.”— Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNever before published, this newly discovered short story by literary legend Sylvia Plath is a remarkable allegorical tale about a young woman’s rebellion against convention and the forceful taking control of her own life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, \u003ci\u003eMary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling coming of age story about a young woman’s fateful train journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLips the color 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“But what \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, a powerful work of psychological fiction written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sylvia Plath","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55253811790115,"sku":"9780062940858","price":12.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253811757347,"sku":"9780062940834","price":10.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062940858.jpg?v=1781823143","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/mary-ventura-and-the-ninth-kingdom-a-story","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}