The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Paperback 

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571268863

I was supposed to be having the time of my life 

 Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esthers vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day living in the sultry city, her crazed men-friends, the hot dinner dances . . . the Bell Jar, Sylvia Plaths only novel, is partially based on Plaths own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.