The Bell Jar - (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) by Sylvia Plath (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of this haunting American classic: a</strong><strong> realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.</strong></p><p><strong>"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in <em>The Bell Jar</em> that make this book enduring in its appeal." -- <em>USA Today</em></strong><br/></p><p><em>The Bell Jar</em> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's neurosis becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <em>The Bell Jar</em> an enduring classic.<br/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable Novel</p><p>Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity</p><p>Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. 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 deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, <em>The Bell Jar</em> is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing."--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"Esther Greenwood's account of her years in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. . . . [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures: it is literature."--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in <em>The Bell Jar </em>that make this book enduring in its appeal and make it as meaningful . . . as it was 25 years ago."--<strong><em>USA Today</em></strong><br><br>"The first-person narrative fixes us there, in the doctor's office, in the asylum, in the madness, with no reassuring vacations when we can keep company with the sane and listen to their lectures."--<strong><em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br><br>"The narrator simply describes herself as feeling very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel. The in-between moment is just what Miss Plath's poetry does catch brilliantly--the moment poised on the edge of chaos."--<strong><em>Christian Science Monitor</em></strong><br>
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