TY - BOOK AU - Plath,Sylvia TI - The bell jar SN - 0060930187 : AV - PS3566.L27 B4 1999b PY - 1999///, c1963 CY - New York PB - HarperPerennial KW - Mental depression KW - Suicide attempts KW - Mental illness KW - Institutionalization KW - Biographical KW - ssi KW - Psychological KW - Classic KW - Literary KW - Fiction N1 - First published in 1963 N2 - This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time ER -