The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath, Maggie Gyllenhaal

eAudio - 2016

Performed by Maggie GyllenhaalOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"A coming–of–age masterpiece." —Boston Globe""It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal."" —USA TodaySylvia Plath's masterwork—an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressuresEsther Greenwood is a bright, beautiful, enormously talented young woman, but she's slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her neurosis becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessib...le an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the... more