The Letters of Shirley Jackson
This bewitching collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House brilliantly draws out flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad.Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features Shirley's own witty line drawings. I must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hyman, Laurence (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-593-13466-5
- EAN: 9780593134665
- Produktnummer: 34880774
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 7 BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTOS, 39 LINE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT
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Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story The Lottery, which was published in The New Yorker in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two works of nonfiction, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, and hundreds of short stories. She died in 1965.Laurence Jackson Hyman (editor), the eldest child of Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman, has spent most of his professional life in publishing as a writer, photographer, editor, art director, and publisher. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of dozens of books and monographs, including two posthumous collections of Jackson's stories: Just an Ordinary Day and Let Me Tell You.Bernice M. Murphy (academic consultant) is an associate professor/lecturer in popular literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She edited the collection Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy and has written several articles and book chapters on Jackson's writing. She is also an expert on American horror and Gothic narratives. Her current work in progress is a monograph entitled California Gothic.
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