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The Bell Jar【瓶中美人】 Sylvia Plath
十九歲的艾瑟即將遠離校園，踏入社會，她才華洋溢且學業成績優秀，準備到紐約時尚雜誌擔任實習編輯，年輕的生命正要展現新的色彩！然而生活並不如意，她憧憬的愛情也只不過是一場欺騙的遊戲，連創作生涯也因申請遭拒而頓失重心，空虛感自四面八方襲來，每天只是為了「形式」上的活著...
A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s neurosis becomes completely understandable and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such thorough exploration of the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche - and the profound collective loneliness that modern society has yet to find a solution for - is an extraordinary accomplishment, and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
