Okay, and we're back to the Daily with Silstine. Now we're doing part two, Saturday's Books to Read. And we're gonna get started in a moment. Here we go with me.
Here we go. The Daily with Silstine here on anchor, part two. Okay, and... Okay, and now Saturday's Books to Read.
Let's begin that now. Alright, Saturday's Books to Read. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Platt. Using the book by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional 365 inspirational, exercises, ideas, tips, and motivations on writing.
She is now a famous poet, but few read poetry. On April 14, Harper and Rowe published the novel, The Bell Jar for the first time in America. For the past seven weeks, to the astonishment of many has been on the best-seller's list. What could have caused this wide popularity?
The second, past human's career as a novelist. This is a quote by Richard Locke. So, here they're talking about Sylvia Platt. And it says, Sylvia Platt's The Bell Jar was originally published in England in 1963 under the student name Victoria Lucas.
It was not published in America until 1971. Pursuant to her ex-husband and mother's wishes. Upon its US publication, it was an immediate bestseller, climbing the New York Times best-seller's list. The Bell Jar is Platt's poignant fictional memoir.
In this, her only novel, Platt tells the story of a young writer, Esther Greenwood, who descends into a mental illness. This parallels Platt's own emotional spiral caused by bipolar disorder. A month after the book was published, in England, Platt committed suicide at the age of 30. The Bell Jar deals with a myriad of feminist issues, including career aspirations and sexual encounters.
In writing about this and other double standards, Platt was setting the foundation for future feminist writers as varied as Camille, Paglia, and Naomi Wolfe. So, this is taken from Saturday's Books to Read by author Sylvia Platt. And here is the, and this was Saturday's for Books to Read. This was Part Two of the Daily with Silstein, using the book by author Amy Peters.