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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2005, UK-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0571226167
ISBN-13
9780571226160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038642737
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bell Jar
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, School & Education, Social Themes / Depression & Mental Illness, General, Mental Health
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Social Science, Fiction, Psychology
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant today as it has always been., 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. Working in New York one hot summer, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world both increasingly unreal and more sharply felt. Plath describes Esther's experience with a searing clarity: the wide-eyed country girls; her sharp-as-nails friend Doreen and her crazed men-friends; hot dinner dances and nights in New York. But it is a vision coloured by breakdown, making this one of the most vivid, troubled novels about the struggle to grow up., I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take her aspirations seriously. The Bell Jar , Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic.
LC Classification Number
PS3566.L27
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