Name: The Letters of Shirley Jackson (en Inglés)
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Author: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780593134658

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The Letters of Shirley Jackson (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Shirley Jackson

Contribuciones de

Bernice M. Murphy

Ilustrado por

Laurence Jackson Hyman

Editorial

Random House Trade

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

672

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 13.0 x 3.6 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780593134658

Categorías

Biografía: escritores
Diarios, correspondencia
Antologías: general

The Letters of Shirley Jackson (en Inglés)

Shirley Jackson (Autor) · Bernice M. Murphy (Contribuciones de) · Laurence Jackson Hyman (Ilustrado por) · Random House Trade · Tapa Blanda

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A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill HouseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS - "This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson's legacy."--Joyce Carol OatesShirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction: 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. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story--with as many levels as grand central station--with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet.Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson's writing over nearly three decades. The novel is getting sadder. It's always such a strange feeling--I know something's going to happen, and those poor people in the book don't; they just go blithely on their ways.Compiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy and featuring Jackson's own witty line drawings, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light.

Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco 1916 – Bennington 1965) estudió en la Universidad de Syracuse. En 1948 publicó su primera novela, The Road Through the Wall, y el cuento «La lotería» (incluido en el volumen Cuentos escogidos), un clásico del siglo xx. Su obra —que también incluye otras novelas, como Hangsaman (1951), The Bird’s Nest (1954) y El reloj de sol (1958), y los ensayos autobiográficos Life Among the Savages (1953) y Raising Demons (1956)— ha ejercido una gran influencia en A. M. Homes, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Matheson y Donna Tartt, entre otros escritores. En 1962 publicó Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, que fue considerada por la revista Time una de las diez mejores novelas del año y que editorial minúscula recuperó en 2012. En 2010, la prestigiosa Library of America reunió algunas de las obras más significativas de Jackson en un volumen al cuidado de Joyce Carol Oates.

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