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Published by Penguin Bolsillo · Fiction · ISBN 9788466359177

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Esther Greenwood, a young student, wins a scholarship to spend a summer working at a fashion magazine in 1950s New York and believes she can finally become a writer. Between parties and manuscripts she runs into a society that scorns women's ambitions, and the novel follows her as she begins to come apart. It is Sylvia Plath's only novel, and Esther is largely a stand-in for the author.

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Who it's for
For readers of fiction about mental health and women's identity, and for anyone who wants to know Plath beyond her poetry. It deals openly with depression and suicidal behaviour.
Why people still read it
It came out in 1963 under a pseudonym, a month before the author's death, and is often read as a roman à clef. In the United States, where it did not appear until 1971, it was an instant bestseller; it has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Guardian considers it an essential text of Anglo-American feminism.

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