The Bell Jar
Edition: First Perennial Classics edition
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780060930189
Copyright date: 1971
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: 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.
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