The Plath, Sylvia 1932-1963 creator McCullough, Frances 1939- foreword text Autobiographical fiction. Psychological fiction. nyu New York HarpePerrenial/Modern Classics 2005 First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition monographic eng

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xvii, 244, 16 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm. The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. "The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy."--from Amazon.com Foreword / Frances McCullough The Bell Jar P.S. Insights, Interviews & More: About the author: Meet Sylvia Plath About the book: The Bell Jar and the life of Sylvia Plath: A biographical note / Lois Ames Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle / Sylvia Plath, Smith College, 1954 Read (and listen) on: Have you read? More by Sylvia Plath Have you heard? Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath. Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More ... at the end of the book. It includes biographical information about the author by Lois Ames Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1963 "25th Anniversary edition published 1996. First Perennial Classics edition published 1999. First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2005."--from title page verso In English Novela estadounidense Discriminación sexual Novela Depression, Mental Fiction Women college students Fiction Suicidal behavior Fiction PS 3566 P716b 2005 813/.54 9780060837020 (pbk.) 0060837020 (pbk.) AU@ 961021 20260826172430.0 57112 eng