This extraordinary work--echoing Plath\'s own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic..
In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther\'s breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational--as accessible an experience as going to the movies.
A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath\'s Remarkable Novel Sylvia Plath\'s shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time.
This extraordinary work--echoing Plath\'s own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time
