The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 1971

$125.00

  • Author: Sylvia Plath
  • Publisher: Harper & Row, 1971
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo
  • Attributes: Dust Jacket

First US edition, 2nd printing, with price of $6.95 on front flap. Binding tight, square, light rubbing a corners, spine sunned, internally fine, unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1/2″ tear on edge of the spine, rubbing at edges. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

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A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.

“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA Today

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, 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 neurosis becomes completely understandable and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such thorough exploration of the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche – and the profound collective loneliness that modern society has yet to find a solution for – is an extraordinary accomplishment, and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

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