The Bell Jar
Edition: Bantam Windstone edition 23960-0 (29)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1981 08
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780553239607; 9780553204520
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Literary; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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.

~from the back cover