Name: Hangsaman (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 47068429
Price: 535.00 TWD
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Author: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780141391984

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Shirley Jackson

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

218

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141391984

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hangsaman (Penguin Modern Classics) "

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.Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short 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

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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