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The Lottery and Other Stories

(Modern Library)

By Shirley Jackson

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| Hardcover | 9780679640394

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A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.
         Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where thContinue

A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.
         Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected.
         The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer.

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  • The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

    Even though it was written over sixty years ago, The Lottery, coming in at fewer than 3,500 words still has the power to shock. When it first appeared in the The New Yorker in 1948 it caused many outraged readers to cancel their subscriptions such wa ... (read full critics)

    thebookbag published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

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  • Interesting stories. Shirley Jackson is good at unveiling the most brutal and violent human impulses which hide under civiled manners, and her characters and situation are often unsettling and sometimes disturbing.
    The famous story "The lottery" is not among my favourites in this collection. I ... (continue)

    Interesting stories. Shirley Jackson is good at unveiling the most brutal and violent human impulses which hide under civiled manners, and her characters and situation are often unsettling and sometimes disturbing.
    The famous story "The lottery" is not among my favourites in this collection. I prefer "Like mother used to make" and its absurd ending, "Charles" (which I found incredibly realistic), the immensely disturbing "The witch", "Seven types of ambiguity" (a clear depiction of Jackson's opinion of human nature), and the powerful "Flower garden".

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