Let Me Tell You: Penguin Modern Classics
Autor Shirley Jackson Editat de Laurence Jackson Hymanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2016
Let Me Tell Youbrings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist.
'The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind, which was ruminant and generous ... For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' - Paul Theroux,New York Times
'Shirley Jackson made a reputation with a short story in 1948. Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from theNew Yorker, and never forgot it.Let Me Tell Youis a rich, enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction and occasional writings, kicking off with a story of a dozen pages, 'Paranoia', which I won't forget, either' - Tom Stoppard,TLS Books of the Year
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241198209
ISBN-10: 0241198208
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241198208
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Shirley
Jackson
was
born
in
California
in
1916.
When
her
short
storyThe
Lotterywas
first
published
in
theNew
Yorkerin
1948,
readers
were
so
horrified
they
sent
her
hate
mail;
it
has
since
become
one
of
the
most
iconic
American
stories
of
all
time.
Her
first
novel,The
Road
Through
the
Wall,
was
published
in
the
same
year
and
was
followed
byHangsaman,The
Bird's
Nest,The
Sundial,The
Haunting
of
Hill
HouseandWe
Have
Always
Lived
in
the
Castle,
widely
seen
as
her
masterpiece.
In
addition
to
her
dark,
brilliant
novels,
she
wrote
lightly
fictionalized
magazine
pieces
about
family
life
with
her
four
children
and
her
husband,
the
critic
Stanley
Edgar
Hyman.
Shirley
Jackson
died
in
1965.
Recenzii
Like
a
lot
of
people
I
read
'The
Lottery'
when
I
was
young,
in
an
anthology
of
short
stories
from
theNew
Yorker,
and
never
forgot
it.Let
Me
Tell
Youis
a
rich,
enjoyable
compendium
of
Jackson's
unpublished
short
fiction
and
occasional
writings,
kicking
off
with
a
story
of
a
dozen
pages,
'Paranoia',
which
I
won't
forget,
either
The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses
The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses