The bell jar
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The bell jar
AUTHOR:
Plath, Sylvia
ISBN:
9780571268863
EDITION:
50th anniversary ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Faber and Faber, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
234 p. ; 20 cm
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT:
| Women college students -- Fiction |
| Suicidal behavior -- Fiction |
| Depression, Mental -- Fiction |
| Autobiographical fiction |
| Psychological fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.