Paperback, 391 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2003 by HarperLargePrint.
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
3 stars
(1 review)
The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, 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. Source: www.harpercollins.com/9780060573096/the-bell-jar-lp/
The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, 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. Source: www.harpercollins.com/9780060573096/the-bell-jar-lp/
Subjects
- Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
- Women college students -- Fiction.
- College students -- Fiction.
- Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.