The Bell Jar

92401 (6 cassettes/8.25 hours). Copyright 1971 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. P 1992 by Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. By Sylvia Plath. Narrated by Christina More. "The Bell Jar chronicles the slow psychological breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant and precociously talented college student who wins an essay contest and spends a month in New York as one of several junior editiors on the staff of a women's fashion magazine. The month in new York is high-pressured, aimless and sensualy surfeit, and Esther finds temporary relief in a tenuously maintained cynical detachment..." (from back case)