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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1993, Paperback, Reissue) 
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1993, Paperback, Reissue)

 
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1993, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Windstone
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0553278355
ISBN-13: 9780553278354
Product ID: EPID214948
Description: Plath's only novel, published shortly before her suicide, THE BELL JAR tells the story, based on the author's own experiences, about a young woman's descent into madness. Esther Greenwood spends a month in New York City as a guest magazi...
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Synopsis
Plath's only novel, published shortly before her suicide, THE BELL JAR tells the story, based on the author's own experiences, about a young woman's descent into madness. Esther Greenwood spends a month in New York City as a guest magazine editor--just as Plath did as a Mademoiselle magazine intern--and gradually loses her grip on reality. THE BELL JAR was so autobiographical that, when it was first published in 1963 in England, it appeared under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

Details
Publication Date:1993-02-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:7.0 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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 Plaths 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.

Autobiographical novel about a brilliant young woman's search for identity and eventual breakdown.

Industry Reviews
This 25th-anniversary edition of Plath's posthumous autobiographical novel includes a new foreword by the book's original editor, Frances McCullough; biographical notes; and eight previously unpublished drawings by Plath. Bravo to HarperCollins for putting all this together at a reasonable price.
Breitman

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