Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Paperback
(Bantam Aug. 1, 1983)
, Later Printing Used Edition
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.
- ISBN
- 0553278355 / 9780553278354
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 6.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.25 x 0.75
in.