description: A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness."A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review."By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon." -- Time."A special poignance... a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will." -- Newsweek.
title: شیشه
titlecomplete: شیشه
characters: Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Joan Gilling
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness, Feminism, Literature, Poetry, Novels
ratings_count: 882396
places: New York City, New York, New York (State), Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, The United States of America
publisher: نیل