Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Language: English
Published by Liveright, 2016
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
- Author
- Franklin, Ruth
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Publication year
- 2016
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0871403137
- ISBN 13
- 9780871403131
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 48 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
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- Biography
"Ruth Franklin is the biographer Jackson needed: she tells the story of the author in a way that made me want to reread every word Jackson ever wrote." Neil Gaiman
Still known to millions only as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from the American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author behind such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition of Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique contribution to this genre came from her focus on "domestic horror" drawn from an era hostile to women. Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, Shirley Jackson, with its exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaged childhood and a troubled marriage to literary critic Stanley Hyman, becomes the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary giant.
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