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The bell jar

Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 1981, ©1971
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : Bantam Windstone edView all editions and formats
Summary:
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,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Autobiographical fiction., Psychological fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 0553278355 : 9780553278354
OCLC Number: 23263699
Description: 216 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Responsibility: Sylvia Plath ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.

Abstract:

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.

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