{"product_id":"bell-jar-a-novel-sylvia-plath","title":"Bell Jar: A Novel : Sylvia Plath","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A coming–of–age masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eenduring in its appeal.\"\u003ci\u003e —USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylvia Plath’s masterwork—an acclaimed novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eillness and societal pressures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003eis Sylvia’s Plath’s only novel and one of the most renowned works of the twentieth cen­tury. “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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e,” writes \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, who named it one of the great American novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a sharp, ambitious, talented college stu­dent coming of age in the 1950s. Esther, a budding writer, wins a coveted summer position at a famous fashion magazine in New York City and is about to embark on what should be one of the most exciting times of her life. Instead, she finds herself caught up in a web of anxieties—the looming expectations of mar­riage and motherhood, and her own career aspirations. When she returns home to Massachusetts, she slips further beneath the waves of her despair as treatment after treatment proves ineffectual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlath’s honest, intimate, and brilliantly rendered exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003ea haunting American classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520984453177,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/9868\/2425\/files\/4a809a9d31b2289e800235e8b3d9d0a441b7e18da789a3d332e9ac5186329eae.jpg?v=1790059681","url":"https:\/\/youshouldreadbox.com\/products\/bell-jar-a-novel-sylvia-plath","provider":"You Should Read","version":"1.0","type":"link"}