Bell Jar

<p><strong>One of <em>The Atlantic</em>'s Great American Novels</strong></p><p><strong>A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Sylvia Plath's masterwork--an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures</strong></p><p><strong>A coming</strong>-<strong>of</strong>-<strong>age masterpiece. --<em>Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p><strong>It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in <em>The Bell Jar</em> that make this book enduring in its appeal. -- <em>USA Today</em></strong></p><p>Esther Greenwood is a bright beautiful enormously talented young woman but she's slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her neurosis becomes palpably real even rational--as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche <em> The Bell Jar</em> is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.</p>