num_pages: 264
description: The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's 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 an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.--back cover
language: English
title: The Bell Jar
titlecomplete: The Bell Jar
characters: Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Joan Gilling
genres: Literature, Psychology, Classics, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Novels, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 882352
places: Massachusetts, The United States of America, New York City, New York, New York (State), Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Perennial  Classics