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Bezig met laden... The Toothdoor Shirley Jackson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I only read The Tooth and The Lottery. These are great stories. I don't think they push the bounds of literature or anything; they are simply delightfully macabre. Sort of like The Twilight Zone stories... It's hard to describe these stories without ruining them. I should read more of her work someday... [edit: just read The Intoxicated. It's super short and you can read it here . Fantastic and resonates strongly with today and our bleak future...] This version of “The Tooth” by Shirley Jackson is published by Penguin in their Mini Modern Classics series. The book contains five tales, which were originally collected in Jackson’s 1949 anthology “The Lottery and Other Stories”. All the tales in here have an air of creeping unease and underlying insanity. “The Tooth” is the strange story of a woman who travels to New York in order to have her toothache seen to. She keeps meeting a stranger who whispers poetically to her and slowly her reality begins to distort and shatter. The collection also contains “The Lottery”, which is arguable Jackson’s most celebrated tale. It features a small village, where once a year a villager is chosen by lottery to be stoned to death by friends, family and the rest of the village. The matter-of-fact narrative style and the unemotional way that the lottery and subsequent act of murder is handled adds to the horrific and chilling nature of this rightfully celebrated tale. The other stories in the book are “The Witch”, which is a truly dark and startling tale, “Charles” and “The Intoxicated”. These are all incredibly short stories and it says a lot about the power of Shirley Jackson’s prose and imagination that she can unnerve and unsettle so effortlessly with so few words. Highly recommended. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)
The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999WaarderingGemiddelde:
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Jackson at her best. ( )