Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation,inspired by the real-life,unsolved disappearance of a female college student.'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'Donna Tartt,author of The GoldfinchNatalie Waite,daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife,is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life,which will spread among nightmarish parties,poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her,as her identity gradually crumbles.This Penguin edition includes a Foreword by Francine Prose.ShirleyJackson's chilling tales have thepower to unsettle andterrify unlike any other. She was born inCalifornia in 1916. When hershort story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948,readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her first novel,The Road Through the Wall,was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman,The Bird's Nest,The Sundial,The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle,widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.'An amazing writer'Neil Gaiman'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming,of things taking a turn for the worse'A. M. Homes'Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written,quiet,cumulative shudders'Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141391984Number of pages: 240Weight: 179 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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A masterclass in the unearthly and the opaqueThe world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming,of things taking a turn for the worseShirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic,inimitable writers...whose work exerts an enduring spell
Shirley Jackson
One of the foremost authors of twentieth-century supernatural fiction,Shirley Jackson is best known for the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle,and the short story The Lottery.
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