The Bell Jar

Name: The Bell Jar
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780061148514

Sylvia Plath • 1963

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Existential Dread

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Our Take

Esther Greenwood wins a magazine prize and spends the summer in New York not being able to say what is wrong. The bell jar descends. Plath published this pseudonymously a month before her death. The novel's restoration of Esther is the story Plath was trying to write for herself.

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