{"product_id":"9780060878771","title":"The Bell Jar","description":"\"The Bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems -- the kind of book Salinger's Franny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in Hell.\" -- Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review\u003cp\u003eBy turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon. The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, covers six months in a young girl's life, beginning when she goes to New York to serve on a fashion magazine's college-editorial board. It ends when she emerges from a mental hospital after a breakdown.\" -- Martha Duffy, Time\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049223340272,"sku":"9780060878771","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060878771_p0.jpg?v=1763767976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060878771","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}