The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.
Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780060930189
Copyright date: 2000 (from back cover)
Subjects: Depression, Mental -- Fiction.; Women college students -- Fiction.; Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.
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
Notes: US edition