{"product_id":"letters-of-shirley-jackson-book1sj102","title":"Jackson: 'The Letters of Shirley Jackson'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Letters of Shirley Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShirley 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten over the course of nearly three decades, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson's writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Random House\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Shirley Jackson\u003cbr\u003eEdited By: Laurence Jackson Hyman\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 625\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 5 X 8 Inches (US)\u003cbr\u003eOriginal publication year: 2022\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780593134658\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44338971181236,"sku":"BOOK1SJ102","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2187\/2175\/files\/lettersofshirleyjacksonfront.jpg?v=1786388726","url":"https:\/\/store.benningtonmuseum.org\/products\/letters-of-shirley-jackson-book1sj102","provider":"Bennington Museum STORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}