description: Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
language: English
title: The Bell Jar
titlecomplete: The Bell Jar
characters: Joan Gilling, Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard
genres: Fiction, Poetry, Mental Health, Psychology, Literature, Feminism, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 882396
places: New York (State), The United States of America, New York City, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
publisher: Demco Media