{"product_id":"the-letters-of-shirley-jackson-9780593134658","title":"The Letters of Shirley Jackson","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of \"The Lottery\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003e- \"This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson's legacy.\"--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ei am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story--with as many levels as grand central station--with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, 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 over nearly three decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe novel is getting sadder. It's always such a strange feeling--I know something's going to happen, and those poor people in the book don't; they just go blithely on their ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy and featuring Jackson's own witty line drawings, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16159072\"\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593134658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593134656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO011000\"\u003eLetters\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO019000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story \"The Lottery,\" which was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sundial;\u003c\/i\u003e two bestselling family chronicles, \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Savages \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Raising Demons;\u003c\/i\u003e and hundreds of short stories, many published in five separate posthumous collections. She died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurence Jackson Hyman (editor)\u003c\/b\u003e, the eldest child of Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman, has spent most of his professional life in publishing--as a writer, photographer, editor, art director, and publisher. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of dozens of books and monographs, including two posthumous collections of his mother's stories: \u003ci\u003eJust an Ordinary Day \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Let Me Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the executive producer for the 2018 film adaptation of \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernice M. Murphy (academic consultant)\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor\/lecturer in popular literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She edited the collection \u003ci\u003eShirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e and has written several articles and book chapters on Jackson's writing. She is also an expert on American horror and gothic narratives. Her current work in progress is a monograph entitled \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44491989614829,"sku":"9780593134658","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_9bb05eb1-9146-4845-87d1-b61c71a9d132.jpg?v=1700891691","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-letters-of-shirley-jackson-9780593134658","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}