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...BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath. 296 pages. Harper...
Sylvia Plath is already well known for her last poems, which are brilliant songs of self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
...when she died, an exhausted, mad mother of two, estranged from her poet husband, Ted Hughes. A typically American-looking blonde, she was much admired in English critical circles; half of literary London blamed itself for her death. Yet The Bell Jar, like the late poems, makes that tragedy seem a pathetic inevitability...
FICTION 1. QBVII,Uris(21astweek) 2. The Passions of the Mind, Stone (1) 3. The New Centurions, Wambaugh (3) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty 5. The Underground Man, MacDonald (4) 6. The Bell Jar, Plath (5) 7. Tarantula, Dylan 8. The Other, Tryon 9. Summer of '42, Raucher (8) 10. The Throne of Saturn, Drury...
...Bell Jar, Plath...