{"product_id":"the-bell-jar-2","title":"The Bell Jar","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\"A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" -- \"Time.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A special poignance... a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will.\" -- \"Newsweek.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sylvia Plath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54909485351125,"sku":"BS-I6J-174903","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9780060174903-HD.jpg?v=1789150370","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/the-bell-jar-2","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}