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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)
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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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- Released
- 1981
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- Title
- The Bell Jar
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sylvia Plath
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN10
- 0553278355
- ISBN13
- 9780553278354
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Psychological Topics, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Love, USA, American Literature, Feminism, Gifts for women, Mental Health, New York, America, Suicide, Psychiatry, Mental Illness, Depression, Autobiographical Novels, Female Writers, Sad, Human Mind, Boston, Classicism, Psychiatric Hospitals, Alienation
- First published
- 1963
- Original title
- The Bell Jar
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- 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)