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Plath Sylvia - The Bell Jar - Hardcover
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Description: " The Bell Jar" is a classic of American literature with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant beautiful enormously talented successful - - but slowly going under and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest - winning junior editor on a magazine her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and with the boy she dated in college and eventually devastatingly into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and 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 rare in any novel. It points to the fact that " The Bell Jar" is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at " Mademoiselle" and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature. " Esther Greenwood's account of her years in " The Bell Jar" is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing This is not a potboiler nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature." - " New York Times" This special 25th - anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Frances Mc Cullough who was the Harper & Row editor for the original edition about the untold story of " The Bell Jar "s first American publication.
Title: The Bell Jar
Author(s): Plath Sylvia
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780060174903
Pages: 320 Pages, Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/11/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: " The Bell Jar" is a classic of American literature with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant beautiful enormously talented successful - - but slowly going under and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest - winning junior editor on a magazine her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and with the boy she dated in college and eventually devastatingly into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and 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 rare in any novel. It points to the fact that " The Bell Jar" is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at " Mademoiselle" and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature. " Esther Greenwood's account of her years in " The Bell Jar" is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing This is not a potboiler nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature." - " New York Times" This special 25th - anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Frances Mc Cullough who was the Harper & Row editor for the original edition about the untold story of " The Bell Jar "s first American publication.
Title: The Bell Jar
Author(s): Plath Sylvia
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780060174903
Pages: 320 Pages, Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/11/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
