Format:
Book
Author:
Plath, Sylvia, author, artist.
Title:
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; P.S. Biographical Note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.
Edition:
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 2005.
©1996
©1971
Description:
xvii, 244, 22 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
[This book] chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, 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 insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made [this book] a haunting American classic.
Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial modern classics.
Subjects:
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.
Genre:
Autobiographical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Other Author:
Ames, Lois, writer of biographical note.
McCullough, Fran, 1939- writer of foreword.
Notes:
Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More ... at the end of the book. It includes a biographical information about the author by Lois Ames.
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1963.
"25th anniversary edition published 1996"--Title page verso.
LCCN:
* 96211742
ISBN:
9780060837020
0060837020
9780061148514
0061148512
0060837020
9780060837020
9781451725391
1451725396
0329485016
9780329485016
0329576100
9780329576103
9780756980054
0756980054
Other Number:
61486461
System Availability:
10
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
10
Control Number:
181514
Call Number:
FICTION Plath
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
6
# System items in:
6