Name: Shirley Jackson Four Novels of the 1940S: The Road Through the Wall
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Author: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9781598536706

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Shirley Jackson Four Novels of the 1940S: The Road Through the Wall

Type

Physical Book

Author

Shirley Jackson

Illustrated by

Ruth Franklin

Publisher

Library of America

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781598536706

Synopsis "Shirley Jackson Four Novels of the 1940S: The Road Through the Wall"

From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror. Shirley Jackson--the beloved author of The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle--is more and more being recognized as one of the finest writers of the American gothic tradition, a true heir of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. Now, Jackson's award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin gathers the subtle, chilling, hypnotic novels with which she began her unique career. Her haunting debut tale The Road Through the Wall (1948) explores the secret desires, petty hatreds, and ultimate terrors that lurk beneath the picture-perfect domesticities of a suburban California neighborhood. In Hangsaman (1951)--inspired by the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore--the precocious but lonely Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on an imaginary friend. The Bird's Nest (1954) has not one but four protagonists: the shy, demure young Elizabeth and, revealed with a series of surprising twists, her other, multiple personalities. At the beginning of The Sundial (1958), the eccentric Halloran clan, gathered at the family manse for a funeral, becomes convinced that the world is about to end and that only those who remain in the house shall be saved. In what is perhaps her most unsettling novel, Jackson follows their crazed, violent preparations for the afterlife. Here is the perfect companion to Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories, Library of America's edition of Jackson's landmark story collection, The Lottery, and her brilliant late novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco 1916 – Bennington 1965) studied at Syracuse University. In 1948, she published her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, and the short story "The Lottery" (included in the volume Selected Stories), a classic of the twentieth century. Her work —which also includes other novels, such as Hangsaman (1951), The Bird’s Nest (1954), and The Sundial (1958), and the autobiographical essays Life Among the Savages (1953) and Raising Demons (1956)— has had a significant influence on A. M. Homes, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Matheson, and Donna Tartt, among other writers. In 1962, she published We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which was considered by Time magazine one of the ten best novels of the year and was reissued by editorial minúscula in 2012. In 2010, the prestigious Library of America collected some of Jackson’s most significant works in a volume edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

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