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The Bell Jar

Written by: Sylvia Plath
Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
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 READ BY THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ACTRESS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

'A modern classic.' Guardian

'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates

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. Esther's 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 Plath's only novel, is partially based on Plath's own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

'As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Review

©2015 Sylvia Plath (P)2015 Faber & Faber Classics
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Her honesty or atleast what feels like it in her writing is amazing. living in this world sometimes gets us down and some are for no reasons better or worse keep striving and not every individual can do so. This book is an account of the latter who bares it all out on paper. The narration was good. It feels a bit uneasy reading the book may be because it shakes the ideas we have built in our heads about life or society as we know it.

Love her writing

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Having listened to it at the lowest in my life, my days filled with never-ending doom as I perused/listened through the facets of Esther's story. This book neither restored hope nor helped me cope. It is scary, sad, and a huge turmoil.

Do not read this if you're psychologically unwell

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Knowing the Sylvia Plath's background, it is hard to tell where the fiction ends and her own tale begins. This is true for all writing, but window into the author's mind is untinted and raw.
Maggie Gyllenhaal does a great job of the air of novel, although her voice in the soft retrospective passages becomes a little hard to hear. Would grant it 5 star through and through if not for that.

deeply personal

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Narrator Is soothing and writing style is poetic a thorough ready. Highly recommended and a must read.

Narrator Is soothing and writing style is poetic

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Loved it. The way she describes her thoughts and feelings is so honest and warms my heart.

honest and raw

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