Word: plath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Bell Jar, Plath...
...Bell Jar, Plath...
...Bell Jar is a novel of mourning. Sylvia Plath's inability to leave death alone is her inability to find the kind of joy she had known when she was "nine and running along the hot white beaches with my father before he died." In her novel she remembers "that I had never cried for my father's death." At nineteen Esther can cry and unharbor the funeral she never attended. Like a magnet to its opposite, the daughter need not follow from her life into her father's death. In her own life, though, the mourning was too persistent...