The Bell Jar. 80th Birthday Edition. Faber Firsts

Seitenzahl:

234

Gewicht:

197 g

Erschienen bei:

Faber And Faber Ltd.

Kurzbeschreibung

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her 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 rare in any novel. It points to the fact that The Bell Jar is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Frances McCullough, who was the Harper & Row editor for the original edition, about the untold story of The Bell Jar's first American publication.

Portrait

Sylvia Plath, geboren am 27. Oktober 1932 in Boston, heiratete nach dem Studium 1956 den englischen Lyriker Ted Hughes, mit dem sie zwei Kinder hatte. Am 11. Februar 1963 nahm sie sich in London das Leben.

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Mehr über:  Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen

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Mehr von:  Sylvia Plath, Faber And Faber Ltd.