The bell jar: a novel

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Author:
Plath, Sylvia
Series:
Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
Harper Perennial modern classics
Language:
English
Lexile measure:
1050L
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Contributors:
Ames, Loiswriter of supplementary material
McCullough, Fran,1939-writer of foreword
ISBN:
9780061148514
9780062444479
9780060930189
9780060837020
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Level 7.2, 11 Points
Lexile measure:
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Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take womens aspirations seriously. This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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2015
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