{"product_id":"the-bell-jar-a-novel-isbn-9780063464162","title":"The Bell Jar: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A coming\u003c\/b\u003e–\u003cb\u003eof\u003c\/b\u003e–\u003cb\u003eage masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003ethat make this book enduring in its appeal.\"\u003ci\u003e —USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e is Sylvia Plath’s masterwork—an acclaimed and timeless novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, intense, enormously human\" (\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan), The Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003eis a poignant exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche and remains an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the country's most luminous talents.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"There’s the depression of popular conception—the listless sadness of a character in a pharmaceutical advertisement—and then there's the biting, brisk, darkly comic version that Plath brings to life in \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a curiously unyielding read: Though the book is semi-autobiographical, Plath’s lucid prose belies the mystery she was and remains. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e is as frustrating and brilliant as its author.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Esther Greenwood’s account of her years in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. . . . [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures: it is literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The first-person narrative fixes us there, in the doctor’s office, in the asylum, in the madness, with no reassuring vacations when we can keep company with the sane and listen to their lectures.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The narrator simply describes herself as feeling very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel. The in-between moment is just what Miss Plath’s poetry does catch brilliantly—the moment poised on the edge of chaos.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sylvia Plath was a luminous talent. . . one of the most interesting poets in American literature.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Movingly chronicled. . . . It's funny, intense, enormously human.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e is regarded as a coming-of-age masterpiece . . . . Sylvia Plath has become of the influential writers of her time.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/em\u003ethat make this book enduring in its appeal.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588050006245,"sku":"NP9780063464162","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-bell-jar-a-novel-isbn-9780063464162","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}