Aj bol supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as intern for New York módne časopis v lete 1953, Esther Greenwood je na brinku jej future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther's vision of the world shimmers and shifts: deň-to-day bývanie v meste mesta, mrazené mužov-friends, horúci večerné dance . . . The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, aj s partially based on Plath's own life. Je to been oslavovaný pre jeho darkly funny a razor sharp portrét spoločnosti 1950s, a má sold millions of copies worldwide.