The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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. n nThe Bell Jar 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 insanity 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 The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.n nThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.n