Paperback, 258 pages

English language

Published June 28, 1974 by Faber & Faber.

ISBN:
978-0-571-08178-3
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OCLC Number:
823691394

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4 stars (1 review)

We follow Esther Greenwood's personal life from her summer job in New York with Ladies' Day magazine, back through her days at New England's largest school for women, and forward through her attempted suicide, her bad treatment at one asylum and her good treatment at another, to her final re-entry into the world like a used tyre: "patched, retreaded, and approved for the road" ... Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.

11 editions

Sadly Plath's only novel.

4 stars

Content warning Obvious topics related to mental health and death

Subjects

  • Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.
  • Women periodical editors -- Fiction.
  • Mentally ill -- Fiction.