• The Monthly Book Club is meeting on Saturday, June 6th to discuss…
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Anyone is welcome to join! If you’re interested, please stop in at the library or give us a call to request a copy of the book.
• Synopsis:
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, 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 insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
[Provided by publisher.]
Trigger warnings!
The Bell Jar contains significant, detailed descriptions of severe depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts. It explores mental illness treatment, including electroshock therapy, alongside themes of sexual assault, rape trauma, deep existential panic, and misogyny.