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Let Me Tell You
Shirley Jackson
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Description for Let Me Tell You
Paperback. Editor(s): Hyman, Laurence Jackson. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336.
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. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly 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 ... Read more
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. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241198209
SKU
V9780241198209
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About Shirley Jackson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Let Me Tell You
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
Like a lot of people ... Read more
Paul Theroux
New York Times
Like a lot of people ... Read more