num_pages: 296
description: Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
language: English
title: The Bell Jar
titlecomplete: The Bell Jar
characters: Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Joan Gilling
genres: Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 882092
places: Massachusetts, The United States of America, New York City, New York, New York (State), Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: HarperCollins