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1 online resource (xxvii, 416 pages) : illustrations |
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Foreword -- Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction -- I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews -- When This War is Over: Early Short Stories -- Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out the Way We Expected: Humor and Family -- I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: About the Craft of Writing -- Afterword. |
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-- Let Me Tell You For the first time, this collection showcasesShirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side. Together they show her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist, and a powerful feminist. This volume includes a Foreword by the celebrated literary critic and Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin. -- -- -- --NPR "There are . . . times in reading (Jackson's) accounts of desperate women in their thirties slowly going crazy that she seems an American Jean Rhys, other times when she rivals even Flannery O'Connor in her cool depictions of inhumanity and insidious cruelty, and still others when she matches Philip K. Dick at his most hallucinatory. At her best, though, she's just incomparable. -- "--USA Today "The closest we can get to sitting down and having a conversation with . . . one of the most original voices of her generation."--The Huffington Post "A master of uncanny suspense, Jackson wrote sentences that crept up on the reader, knife in hand."--New York From the Hardcover edition. |
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A new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters, and other writings by the renowned author of "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House" includes pieces reflecting on the literary process and family life. |
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Foreword -- Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction -- I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews -- When This War is Over: Early Short Stories -- Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out the Way We Expected: Humor and Family -- I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: About the Craft of Writing -- Afterword. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 -- Literary collections.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. |
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Electronic books. |
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Literary collections.
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Short stories.
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Hyman, Laurence Jackson, editor.
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DeWitt, Sarah Hyman, editor.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Paranoia.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Still life with teapot and students.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Arabian nights.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
It isn't the money I mind.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Company for dinner.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
I cannot sing the old songs.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
New maid.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
French is the mark of a lady.
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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
Gaudeamus Igitur.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. Let me tell you New York : Random House, [2015] 9780812997668 (DLC) 2014036656 (OCoLC)894540399 |
| ISBN |
9780812997675 : $54.00 |
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0812997670 : $54.00 |
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