The Bell Jar

Mass Market Paperback, 216 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1981 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-23960-7
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OCLC Number:
444868443

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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.

~from the back cover

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  • Literary
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism

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