The Bird's Nest
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2014
Summary
Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. The Bird’s Nest i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141391946 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141391944 |
| Author: | Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable … It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse – A. M. HomesShirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders – Dorothy ParkerShirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers … whose work exerts an enduring spell – Joyce Carol Oates
About The Author
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 and was followed by 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. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
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