The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Bantam (1983)
In Collection
#3951
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Autobiographical Fiction, Psychological Fiction
College Students - Suicidal Behavior - Fiction, Depression, Mental - Fiction
Paperback 9780553278354
English
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. "A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert Scholes, "The New York Times Book Review." "By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon." -- "Time." "A special poignance... a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will." -- "Newsweek."
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3566.L27 .Be6
LoC Control Number non70-350087
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $7.50
No. of Pages 216
Height x Width 7.0 x 4.3  inch
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