The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath
Edition: Bantam Windstone edition (47)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1981 08
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780553278354
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction; Psychological fiction; Mental Depression; College students; Suicidal behavior; Fiction
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. (back cover)
Notes: US edition