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Product Identifiers

PublisherFaber & Faber, Incorporated

ISBN-100571226167

ISBN-139780571226160

eBay Product ID (ePID)25038642737

Product Key Features

Book TitleBell Jar

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicFeminism & Feminist Theory, School & Education, Social Themes / Depression & Mental Illness, General, Mental Health

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Social Science, Fiction, Psychology

AuthorSylvia Plath

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisEsther 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.L27