by Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller
'Come Along with Me' is Jackson's unfinished novel. I absolutely love it anyway. Sparkling is the word that come to mind most about the narrator, a clairvoyant widow who lives in a boarding house. There's an old tv movie based on it that is equally charming.This edition also includes some short sto...
Though everything I've read about Shirley Jackson says the contrary, I can't help but think that she was very unhappy. Perhaps she was only sympathetic: all of her central characters (her family stories aside), all of her focus, seems to be inside the heads of uncertain women unhappy with their lot....
When Jackson writes about hauntings or murders you can pretend that you are reading about the unusual. You don't have that luxury with these short stories. Here the quotidian cruelties, the pettiness, the dishonesty and selfishness of ordinary people are not softened by the distracting gloss of insa...
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