Shirley Jackson Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s

As Francine Prose has written, Shirley Jackson is an author who "not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of". Here are four spellbinding novels in which Jackson reimagines the American gothic tradition, exploring psychological terrors against the backdrop of a daylit and seemingly conventional postwar world. The Road Through the Wall reveals the hatreds and crimes hidden behind a California suburb's picture-perfect facades. Hangsaman is a psychological thriller in which a college student's loneliness takes a sinister turn. In The Bird's Nest, a young office worker's multiple personalities battle for predominance. And in The Sundial, perhaps her darkest work, an eccentric clan sheltering at home makes increasingly deranged preparations for the apocalypse.

PRODUCT DETAILS:
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Author: Shirley Jackson
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 850
Dimensions: 5.5 X 8 Inches (US)
Original publication year: 2020
ISBN: 9781598536706