HOSTESS: Kami
REASON CHOSEN: "A few people I know have read it and I thought it was a great book."
Sylvia Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel which was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The Bell Jar has become a classic of American literature. The book is based on her own experience yet one has to be careful not to confuse this novel with an autobiography, it has been written with a certain audience and effect in mind, 10 years after the actual events.
Esther, an A-student from Boston who has won a guest editorship on a national magazine, finds a bewildering new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so that the choice of future is overwhelming, but she can no longer retreat into the safety of her past. Deciding she wants to be a writer above all else, Esther is also struggling with the perennial problems of morality, behaviour and identity. In this compelling autobiographical novel, a milestone in contemporary literature, Sylvia Plath chronicles her teenage years - her disappointments, anger, depression and eventual breakdown and treatment - with stunning wit and devastating honesty.
It's Going to be made into a Movie! Julia Stiles will play Esther Greenwood. Check it out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844467/
Buy it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Jar-Novel-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060930187
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