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sylvia plath - the bell jar
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| keithos27 |
has anyone here ever read it? i'm 105 pages into it (so don't ruin it!!!) and it's amazing... really like it a lot.
any similar recommendations?
-keith |
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| igottaknow |
| i just got finished with a book where the author loses her mind. its kinda desturbing even though it was fiction, but i believe the bell jar is real. someone told me its depressing book |
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| keithos27 |
| i know she loses her mind in it, but i haven't gotten to that point yet... i'm not so sure it's "real" since the character isn't sylvia plath... it may have some close links to her own life though? |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
i just got finished with a book where the author loses her mind. its kinda desturbing even though it was fiction, but i believe the bell jar is real. someone told me its depressing book |
Are you talking about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper? This is more of a short story than a book but one of America's first example of psychotic results in women's writing. Easily one of my favorite American short stories of that time period.
Im not a big Plath fan, but the Bell Jar could be alot worse. |
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| igottaknow |
| nah, i read Elizabeth Costello by Coetzee |
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