Dark Tales - Rilegato

Jackson, Shirley

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ISBN 10: 0241295424 ISBN 13: 9780241295427

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2016

Riassunto

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...

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Recensione:

Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written ... No-one can touch her (Donna Tartt)

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable (A. M. Homes)

One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' (Paul Theroux)

An amazing writer (Neil Gaiman)

Dark Tales reveals a superior gothic writer ... Shirley Jackson's menacing gothic tales are a joy to rediscover (The Times)

An excellent primer for her short fiction (The Pool)

L'autore:

Shirley Jackson 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 most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by 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. 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.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241295424
• ISBN 13: 9780241295427
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208