In this classic comingofage novel set in postWorld War II America EstherGreenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at afashion m... » 

In this classic comingofage novel set in postWorld War II America EstherGreenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at afashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the youngwomans inner life as Esther succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likensto being trapped beneath the title object a bell jar struggling for her nextbreath. Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new title in theBlooms Guides series which also features an annotated bibliography and alisting of other works by the author. «