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  by Sylvia Plath

category Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 0553278355
Books Registered: 97
BookCrossing Rating: Average 3 star rating by BookCrossing Members
Books in the Wild: 36
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A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment  on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds  herself plunged into a nightmare. An  autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown  and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar  is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic  but painful statement of what happens to a woman's  aspirations in a society that refuses to take them  seriously... a society that expects electroshock  to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning  young artist whose search for identity becomes a  terrifying descent toward madness.


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Registered by MieLH of Odense, Fyns Amt Denmark on Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Current status: travelling Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members


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Current status: travelling Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by wingBookCrosserwing of Culemborg, Gelderland Netherlands on Thursday, September 19, 2002

Current status: available Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by kslittle575 of Omaha, Nebraska USA on Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Current status: travelling Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by 4libros of Omaha, Nebraska USA on Sunday, July 20, 2003

Current status: all Average 5 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by MarciNYC of Howell, New Jersey USA on Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Current status: to be read Average 9 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by wingtime-travelerwing of Westchester, New York USA on Monday, May 09, 2005

Current status: available Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by explorer1118m of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey USA on Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Current status: travelling This book has not been rated.


Registered by katylyst of Portland, Oregon USA on Sunday, September 22, 2002

Current status: all Average 9 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by Booknose of Henryville, Indiana USA on Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Current status: to be read Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by wingBadgerjimwing of Augusta, Maine USA on Friday, April 27, 2007

Current status: travelling Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by avidreader56 on Friday, March 22, 2002

Current status: travelling Average 3 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by vixenlibrarian of Issaquah, Washington USA on Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Current status: travelling Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by asuzachan of San Diego, California USA on Thursday, April 06, 2006

Current status: travelling Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by flewry of Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Saturday, February 13, 2010

Current status: travelling This book has not been rated.


Registered by keeprdg of Duluth, Georgia USA on Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Current status: travelling Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by TBlack44 of Wake Forest, North Carolina USA on Sunday, January 18, 2004

Current status: to be read This book has not been rated.


Registered by rainflower of Tucson, Arizona USA on Sunday, October 24, 2004

Current status: travelling Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by snonsumr of Butler, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Current status: to be read Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members


Registered by flathat37 of Mesa, Arizona USA on Monday, June 28, 2010

Current status: available Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members




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