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21%OFFShirley Jackson - Just an Ordinary Day - 9780141983202 - V9780141983202
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Just an Ordinary Day

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Description for Just an Ordinary Day paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 334.

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'.

An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories.

'Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just ... Read more] is a gift to a new generation' - San Francisco Chronicle

'For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection' - Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141983202
SKU
V9780141983202
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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 Just an Ordinary Day
Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation
San Francisco Chronicle
For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection
Publishers Weekly
One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Just an Ordinary Day


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