The Bell Jar - letters.to.stephanie

The bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Biographical Note by Lois Ames / Drawings by Sylvia Plath eVersion / Notes at EOF Back Cover: SIX MONTHS IN A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE. "The bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Franny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review "A special poignance.. a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will." -- Newsweek "By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon. The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, covers six months in a young girl's life, beginning when she goes to New York to serve on a fashion magazine's college-editorial board.

down my throat. I kept hearing about the Rosenbergs over the radio and at the office till I couldn't get them out of my mind. It was like the first time I saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head -- or what there was left of it -- floated up behind my eggs and bacon

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