Name: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
SKU: 61955906
Price: 271.00 ZAR
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Author: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780241685044

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Shirley Jackson

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd (Uk)

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780241685044

Synopsis "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer.

Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father’s fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will do whatever is necessary to protect their home.

Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go. - Donna Tartt

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master. - A. M. Homes

A masterpiece of Gothic suspense. - Joyce Carol Oates

If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ... you have missed out on something marvellous. - Neil Gaiman

Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco 1916 – Bennington 1965) studied at Syracuse University. In 1948, she published her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, and the short story "The Lottery" (included in the volume Selected Stories), a classic of the twentieth century. Her work —which also includes other novels, such as Hangsaman (1951), The Bird’s Nest (1954), and The Sundial (1958), and the autobiographical essays Life Among the Savages (1953) and Raising Demons (1956)— has had a significant influence on A. M. Homes, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Matheson, and Donna Tartt, among other writers. In 1962, she published We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which was considered by Time magazine one of the ten best novels of the year and was reissued by editorial minúscula in 2012. In 2010, the prestigious Library of America collected some of Jackson’s most significant works in a volume edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

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