mass market paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published April 28, 1972 by Bantam Books.
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
3 stars
(1 review)
The Bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems--the kind of book Salinger's Franny might have written about herself 10 years later, if she had spent those 10 years in Hell.
Subjects
- Mental illness -- Fiction.
- Suicide -- Fiction.
- Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
- Women college students -- Fiction.
- Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.