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From the peerless author of The Lottery, a spectacular new volume of unpublished and newly discovered stories, essays, letters and drawingsLet Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with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.
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A new volume of unpublished and newly discovered stories, essays, letters and drawings from the author of The Lottery.
Author Biography
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.
Review
Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker, and never forgot it. Let Me Tell You is a rich, enjoyable compendium of Jackson's unpublished short fiction and occasional writings, kicking off with a story of a dozen pages, 'Paranoia', which I won't forget, either -- Tom Stoppard * TLS Books of the Year *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 -- Paul Theroux * New York Times *
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From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.
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Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker , and never forgot it. Let Me Tell You is 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
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Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker , and never forgot it. Let Me Tell You is 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
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From the peerless author of The Lottery , a spectacular new volume of unpublished and newly discovered stories, essays, letters and drawings
Details ISBN0241198208 Author Laurence Jackson Hyman Pages 448 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2016 ISBN-10 0241198208 ISBN-13 9780241198209 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-08-25 Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman DEWEY 818.5209 Series Penguin Modern Classics Imprint Penguin Classics Language English UK Release Date 2016-08-25 Alternative 9780241198216 Audience General NZ Release Date 2016-10-16 AU Release Date 2016-10-16 We've got this
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