A 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, The Bell Jar is 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...(展开全部)

A 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, The Bell Jar is 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...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

[美] 梅雷迪斯·梅（Meredith May） 特稿记者，作者，第五代养蜂人。 在《旧金山纪事报》任职的十六年间，梅雷迪斯·梅获得了凯西杰出记者奖章；赢得职业记者协会和美联社颁发的特稿写作奖第一名；作品入选普利策短名单，被收录在《2005年度最佳新闻写作》中。2017年出版的处女作《我，没有死》（I, Who Did Not Die）讲述了一名伊朗儿童兵的真实经历。 梅雷迪斯·梅曾任奥克兰米尔斯学院新闻传播学教授，担任多所高校的客座讲师。现居旧金山，在社区花园中养殖有数个蜂群。

《The Bell Jar》为美国著名女作家西尔维娅·普拉斯代表作。 该小说记录了埃丝特·格林伍德（Esther Greenwood）的崩溃过程：她才华横溢、美丽动人、天赋异禀、事业有成，但却慢慢走向崩溃——也许是最后一次崩溃。西尔维娅·普拉斯巧妙地将读者带入埃丝特的精神崩溃之中，使埃丝特的精神错乱变得完全真实，甚至合理，就像看电影一样容易接受。如此深入地揭示心理的阴暗角落，是一项非凡的成就，也使该小说成为美国文学经典。

《The Bell Jar》为美国著名女作家西尔维娅·普拉斯代表作。 该小说记录了埃丝特·格林伍德（Esther Greenwood）的崩溃过程：她才华横溢、美丽动人、天赋异禀、事业有成，但却慢慢走向崩溃——也许是最后一次崩溃。西尔维娅·普拉斯巧妙地将读者带入埃丝特的精神崩溃之中，使埃丝特的精神错乱变得完全真实，甚至合理，就像看电影一样容易接受。如此深入地揭示心理的阴暗角落，是一项非凡的成就，也使该小说成为美国文学经典。

'In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed outside her home after her gold watch falls out of her pocket. Flash forward to 1991... playwright André Lévêque seeks help identifying a film he saw at a friend’s house when he was 10, whose story seems to match the circumstances of the 1901 crime. And in the winter of 1911, Victoria Sanders... has invited guests ...(展开全部)

'In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed outside her home after her gold watch falls out of her pocket. Flash forward to 1991... playwright André Lévêque seeks help identifying a film he saw at a friend’s house when he was 10, whose story seems to match the circumstances of the 1901 crime. And in the winter of 1911, Victoria Sanders... has invited guests ...(展开全部)

Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to science's greatest mysteries. How did the Big Bang happen? What might 'dark matter' be made of? And could faster-than light travel be possible, overturning Einstein's theory of special relativity? But t...(展开全部)

Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to science's greatest mysteries. How did the Big Bang happen? What might 'dark matter' be made of? And could faster-than light travel be possible, overturning Einstein's theory of special relativity? But t...(展开全部)