Paperback. Pub Date :1999-01-01 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Crime The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature. with over two million copies sold in this country This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup 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 with 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.Such deep penetration into the dark a...
About the Author
Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Plath is credited with being a pioneer of the 20th-century style of writing called confessional poetry. Her poem "Daddy" is one of the best-known examples of this genre.
In 1963, Plath s semi-autobiographic novel The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"; it was reissued in 1966 under her own name. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.
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