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Synopsis
Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter
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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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A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.
"A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review.
"By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon." -- Time.
"A special poignance... a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will." -- Newsweek.
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- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0060133562
- ISBN 13 9780060133566
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
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Hardcover, 8vo. Seventh printing. 296 pgs. Later printing, as shown on last page of book. From a personal library, having tape stains on the cloth cover from library-type securing of wrapper protector, and the owner's name on both the clipped jacket and the ffe. Otherwise a nice copy, in the purple cloth binding variant. Jacket is bright, only 2 spine chips. Seller Inventory # 470
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Hardcover. Second printing, 1971. 296 pgs., 8vo. Reddish cloth binding, garnet backstrip, with bright silver stamping. Unclipped and unchipped dust wrapper, priced $6.95. Second printing is indicated at the foot of page 296. Scarce early copy of the poet's only novel, which has autobiographical elements. Fine collectible condition. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 831
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition; First Printing. Stated First U.S. Edition. A moderate lean, rubbing and toning, foxing to the top pages edges, and brief bumps to the corners. Jacket with rubbing, toning, minor wear to the edges, foxing to the verso, and a small closed tear to the crown. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages. Seller Inventory # 90278
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First U.S. edition with no additional printings stated and no number line on last page, in lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. Clean tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Seller Inventory # 121470
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.S Edition. First U. S. edition (stated), first printing, hardcover. 296 pages. With biographical note by Lois Ames and drawings by Sylvia Plath. Good with rubbing to bottom edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper, and spine cocked, in a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear. NOT price-clipped. Mylar cover on jacket. Sylvia Plath's only published novel - first published in England under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Seller Inventory # 141627
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages; 1971 Harper & Row HC/DJ 1st American edition, stated. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Bound in burgundy color half cloth backed spine and patterned paper covered boards; lettering In silver to spine is bold and uniform. Mild fading to publisher's purple top stain and trace rubbing to boards at corner tips. Mild toning to pale purple endsheets. Jacket has light shelf rubbing and a few superficial nicks at edges. Rear surface of the jacket a little soiled at edges. No marks of any kind. A solid gift ready example of one of the more significant books of the 20th century. VG+/VG+. Seller Inventory # 54657
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