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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1963
Pages
Pages 240

A gifted college girl wins a magazine month in New York, feels the air thin under a descending bell jar, and narrates her breakdown, treatment and fragile surfacing with lethal wit.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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