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The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; P.S. Biographical Note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.

Plath, Sylvia, (author,, artist.). Ames, Lois, (writer of biographical note.). McCullough, Fran, 1939- (writer of foreword.).

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[This book] chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under-- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made [this book] a haunting American classic.

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  • ISBN: 9780061148514
  • ISBN: 0061148512
  • ISBN: 0060837020
  • ISBN: 9780060837020
  • ISBN: 9781451725391
  • ISBN: 1451725396
  • ISBN: 0329485016
  • ISBN: 9780329485016
  • ISBN: 0329576100
  • ISBN: 9780329576103
  • ISBN: 9780756980054
  • ISBN: 0756980054
  • ISBN: 9781435249035
  • ISBN: 1435249038
  • Physical Description: xvii, 244 pages, 22 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 2005.

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General Note:
"25th anniversary edition published 1996"--Title page verso.
Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More ... at the end of the book. It includes a biographical information about the author by Lois Ames.
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1963.
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:
1050L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.2 11 8651.

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