Name: The Bird's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Shirley Jackson

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The Bird's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Shirley Jackson

Editorial

Penguin Classics

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780141391946

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The Bird's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) (en Inglés)

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The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil GaimanElizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and casual cruelty have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She 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 five more: 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. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48. 'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse' - A. M. Homes Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders' - Dorothy Parker 'Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers ... whose work exerts an enduring spell' - Joyce Carol Oates

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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco 1916 – Bennington 1965) estudió en la Universidad de Syracuse. En 1948 publicó su primera novela, The Road Through the Wall, y el cuento «La lotería» (incluido en el volumen Cuentos escogidos), un clásico del siglo xx. Su obra —que también incluye otras novelas, como Hangsaman (1951), The Bird’s Nest (1954) y El reloj de sol (1958), y los ensayos autobiográficos Life Among the Savages (1953) y Raising Demons (1956)— ha ejercido una gran influencia en A. M. Homes, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Matheson y Donna Tartt, entre otros escritores. En 1962 publicó Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, que fue considerada por la revista Time una de las diez mejores novelas del año y que editorial minúscula recuperó en 2012. En 2010, la prestigiosa Library of America reunió algunas de las obras más significativas de Jackson en un volumen al cuidado de Joyce Carol Oates.

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