BOOKS

The Lover

Marguerite Duras · 2011

Just Kids

Patti Smith · 2011

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 2005

<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> 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 movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2012

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2022

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami · 2010

<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Kafka on the Shore: </i>A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.<br><br><b>Now with a new introduction by the author.</b> <br></b><br> Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. <br><br> Stunning and elegiac, <i>Norwegian Wood</i> first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2006