A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath

Back Cover:
SIX MONTHS IN A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE.
"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

"A special poignance. . . a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will."

"By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon. The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, covers six months in a young girl's life, beginning when she goes to New York to serve on a fashion magazine's college-editorial board.

http://letters.to.stephanie.gportal.hu/portal/letters.to.stephanie/upload/745843_1406744742_07068.pdf

A somewhat sorta-kinda autobiographical period of Sylvia Plath of some of the stuff she went through ages 19-20. I stole her as a character for The Xanon Chronicles, and I think she's probably happy with what I did. She was not well-adjusted to reality (As if I am.) after her father died, and in the series it was her way or the highway