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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “remarkable act of reclamation” , Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon “so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions that it is ‘nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era’ ” . Franklin investigates the “interplay between the life, the work, and the times with real skill and insight, making this fine book a real contribution not only to biography, but to mid-20th-century women’s history” . “Wisely rescu[ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity” , Franklin’s invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.

Language: English

Pages: 624

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liveright

Release: October 10, 2017

ISBN: 1631493418

ISBN 13: 9781631493416

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “remarkable act of reclamation” , Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon “so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions that it is ‘nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era’ ” . Franklin investigates the “interplay between the life, the work, and the times with real skill and insight, making this fine book a real contribution not only to biography, but to mid-20th-century women’s history” . “Wisely rescu[ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity” , Franklin’s invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.

Language: English

Pages: 624

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liveright

Release: October 10, 2017

ISBN: 1631493418

ISBN 13: 9781631493416

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