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ISBN-10: 1631493418
ISBN-13: 9781631493416
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/10/2017
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

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Instantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), 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” (Neil Gaiman), Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” (New York Times Book Review) 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’ ” (Washington Post). 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” (Chicago Tribune). “Wisely rescu[ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity” (Lena Dunham), Franklin’s invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.

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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
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Details

ISBN-10: 1631493418
ISBN-13: 9781631493416
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/10/2017
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H
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