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Esther, an A-student from Boston has won a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a bewildering new world at her feet. Her New York Life is crowded with possibilities, so that the choice of future is overwhelming, but she can no longerretreat into the safety of her past. Deciding she wants to be a writer above all else, Esther is also struggling with the perennial problems of morality, behaviour and identity.
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Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly- written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.
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"An enchanting book. The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor and understanding.""-- Atlantic Monthly"
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0141800976
- ISBN 13 9780141800974
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages3
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