TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plath,Sylvia
AU  - Ames,Lois
AU  - McCullough,Fran
TI  - The bell jar
T2  - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
SN  - 9780060837020
AV  - PS3566.L27 B4 2005
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - Depression, Mental
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Suicidal behavior
KW  - fast
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
KW  - lcshs
N1  - 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; Accelerated Reader; Grades 9-12; 7.2; 11; Quiz 8651; English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available
N2  - [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
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