The Bell Jar

✍ Scribed by Plath, Sylvia

• Book ID: 110181677
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Edition: UK edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780571081783

✦ Synopsis

We follow Esther Greenwood’s personal life from her summer job in New York withLadies’ Daymagazine, back through her days at New England’s largest school for women, and forward through her attempted suicide, her bad treatment at one asylum and her good treatment at another, to her final re-entry into the world like a used tyre: "patched, retreaded, and approved for the road" ... Esther Greenwood’s account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. --- A novel of autobiographical fiction. First published in 1963 by William Heinemann Limited First published in Faber Paperbacks in 1966 by Faber and Faber Limited, London ’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’. TAGS: academics, insane asylum, atom-spies, authoress, autobiographical fiction, belles-lettres, blue-stocking, clinical depression, college girls, Communists, electrocution, high-IQ, Ivy League, Jews, litterateurs, New York, Rosenbergs, suicide