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The Bell Jar
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Plath, Sylvia
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Gyllenhaal, Maggie
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HarperAudio 2016
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A realistic and emotional look at a woman who falls into the grips of insanity written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath

"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." — USA Today

The Bell Jar 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 neuroses become 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 The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

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Format:
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Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
02/02/2016
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780060886646
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Level 7.2, 11 Points
Lexile measure:
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Sylvia Plath. (2016). The Bell Jar. Unabridged HarperAudio.

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Sylvia Plath. 2016. The Bell Jar. HarperAudio.

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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. HarperAudio, 2016.

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Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2016.

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"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." — USA Today

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