"This terse account of an American girl`s breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylivia Plath`s attention had the quality of ruthlessness...imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence." Stphen Wall, Obsever
The Bell Jar is Sylivia Plath`s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon.It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author`s suicide.