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. Written 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. I 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. 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. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of 'The Lottery' and The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our. 'Thisbiography-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 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS.

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