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The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.L27 B4 1999x
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plath, Sylvia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depression, Mental--Fiction.
- Depression, Mental.
- Women college students--Suicidal behavior.
- Women college students.
- Women college students--Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
- Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
- Suicidal behavior.
- Depression.
- Women.
- Medical Subjects:
- Depression.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction, American.
- Feminist fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Classics, 1999.
- Summary:
- This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
- ISBN:
- 0060930187
- 9780060930189
- OCLC:
- 43421475
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