"The Bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about
how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter
and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Franny might have
written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell." -- Robert
Scholes, The New York Times Book Review
"A special poignance. . . a special