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The bell jar / Sylvia Plath.

Publisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2005Description: 234 p. 20 cm001: 13810ISBN: 9780571226160Subject(s): Depression | Feminism | American literature | Mental disordersDDC classification: 823 PLA

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	MAIN LIBRARY FICTION	PRINT	FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		109909

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I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take her aspirations seriously.

The Bell Jar , Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic.

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In this classic coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II America, Esther Greenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young woman's inner life, as Esther succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath. Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new title in theBloom's Guidesseries, which also features an annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author. Excerpted from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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An autobiographical novel about a young girl-brilliant, beautiful, and successful, but slowly breaking down-written by a poet who later committed suicide.

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