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)

was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grap...(展开全部)

《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。

Nobody wants to believe that Grace Peltier committed suicide: not Curtis, her father; not former U.S. Senator Jack Mercier; and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the circumstances of her death. But when a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of the Aroostook Baptists, a religious community that disappeared almost for...(展开全部)

John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow" were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" "(Publishers Weekly)" Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style.THE KILLING KINDWhen the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious co...(展开全部)

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots ...(展开全部)

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to unc...(展开全部)