- Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting
two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things -
grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless
mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in
it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of
her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing,
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published
under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of
themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant
today as it has always been.
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