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The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Bernice M. Murphy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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**A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and __The Haunting of Hill House__****NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY __KIRKUS REVIEWS__ • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol Oates**Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad.__i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet.__Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiogra
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Shirley Jackson, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Bernice M. Murphy
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593134658
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (108 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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