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‘Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written’ sposa Tartt
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson’s short stories, including ‘The Lottery’ – one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.
In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson’s best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.
Shirley Jackson’s chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She 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 greatest American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: 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. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.
‘An amazing writer … if you haven’t read any of her short stories … you have missed out on something marvellous’ Neil Gaiman
‘Her stories are stunning, timeless – as relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published … ‘The Lottery’ is so much an icon in the history of the American short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American psyche, our collective unconscious’ A. M. Homes
ASIN : B002RUA58S
Editore : Penguin; 1° edizione (1 ottobre 2009)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 2107 KB
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Lunghezza stampa rosa : 216 pagine
Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN : B092CBH514
Franco66CM –
Raccolta di novelle ambientate negli Stati Uniti degli anni ’50
Le novelle sono interessanti e scritte bene. Danno uno spaccato della vita nelle zone rurali degli Stati Uniti e in ognuna il protagonista si trova a gestire situazioni un po’ al limite. Sarebbe da 4 stelle, ma ne metto 3 per l’aspettativa creata dalla novella “The lottery”, che rispetto alle altre è solo un po’ più eclatante. Ho preferito di molto altre novelle, ad esempio “The Tooth”, dove l’elemento fuori posto è meno immediatamente visibile.
Clara C –
Excepcional libro de relatos cortos.
N. Kilpatrick –
This is a nice sweep of Jackson’s work. Not all stories are eerie by far but the writing is fantastic and the tales tend to be out of the realm of normal, although not many twinges of the supernatural world.
Alisa Gilmutdinova –
interesting stories
Client d’Amazon –
certaines nouvelles sont terrifiantes cf “the lottery”
Diego HL –
Gran libro de historias cortas con una perspectiva diferente, Shirley Jackson logra una tensión tan identificable del dÃa a dÃa que es fácil relacionarse con sus personajes