The Bell Jar
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780571200337
Subjects: Modern fiction
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 is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boudaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.
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