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About the book
Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
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What readers say about ‘The Bell Jar’
Chloë Grace Moretz on The Bell Jar
“"Can be really interesting [as a movie] — if it's done the right way"”
Christopher Hitchens on The Bell Jar
“"When I myself first read [this book], the phrase of hers that most arrested me was the one with which she described her father's hometown."”
