The Road Through the Wall
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2013
Summary
Reminiscent of her classic story ‘The Lottery’, Jackson’s disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life.
In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, the feelings of the inhabitants are shallow and selfish—what can a neighbour do for another neighbour, what may be won from a friend? One child stands alone in her goodness—little Caroline Desmond, kind, sweet, and gentle, and the pride of her…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392004 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392002 |
| Author: | Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers … whose work exerts an enduring spell
An unburnished exercise in the sinister * The New York Times *Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk; to the threat that sparkles at the rainbow’s edge of the sprinkler spray on even the greenest lawns, on the sunniest of midsummer mornings – Donna TarttShirley 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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