{"product_id":"the-bell-jar","title":"The Bell Jar","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eA vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Fanny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell.\" -- Robert Scholes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A special poignance... a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__gradientOverlay\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"Button Button--tertiary Button--medium\" aria-label=\"Tap to show more book description\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Button__labelItem\"\u003eShow more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sylvia Plath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52447562170648,"sku":null,"price":695.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/1586\/4121\/files\/23251282.jpg?v=1785134994","url":"https:\/\/thelastwordbks.com\/products\/the-bell-jar","provider":"The Last Word Bks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}