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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-100571081789
ISBN-139780571081783
eBay Product ID (ePID)48662007
Product Key Features
Book TitleBell Jar
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Contemporary Women, General, Mental Health, Literary
Publication Year2001
GenreFiction, Social Science, Psychology
AuthorSylvia Plath
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Number of Volumes3 vols.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the choice of future is overwhelming. She is faced with the perennial problems of morality, behaviour and identity., A student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the choice of future is overwhelming. She is faced with the perennial problems of morality, behaviour and identity. 'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had the quality of ruthlessness and.imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence.' Stephen Wall in the Observer, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide. 'It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems . . . The world in which the events of the novel take place is a world bounded by the Cold War on one side and the sexual war on the other . . . This novel is not political nor historical in any narrow sense, but in looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness it forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic fiction: What is reality and how can it be confronted? . . . Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Review
