Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
"The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother, and with the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is rare in any novel. It points to the fact that The Bell Jar is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature. -- Publisher description
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Author
Sylvia Plath
Pages
288
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2006-10-17
ISBN
0061148512 9780061148514
Ratings
Google: 5
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"It’s a decent book, I’m a little dumb so it was kinda hard for me to follow along but overall it was “okay” I didn’t really like the racist remarks or comments about people who are plus size it made me uncomfortable as I am also plus size…but what do you expect you know 😂 this was a book written by someone who lived in a different time so things seen as inappropriate these days are different from back then but that’s my only complaint 🩷🧡🤍🧡🩷"
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Nassa Lacey
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