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18 de jul. de 2015 · I knew there was a reason that Shirley Jackson Reading Week included the 18th – because I have only just got around to finishing my choice (thanks to two book group books read earlier in the week): I read the only Shirley Jackson novel I hadn’t previously got around to, which is also her first novel, The Road Through The Wall (1948).
25 de jun. de 2013 · The Road Through the Wall. The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end ...
Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
The Road Through the Wall Quotes Showing 1-10 of 10. “In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.”. ― Shirley Jackson, The Road ...
The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was published in 1948. Her novels--which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House--are characterized by her use ...
- Shirley Jackson
5 de ene. de 2016 · The Road through the Wall is the exception as there is no central character, rather a quickly changing kaleidoscope of characters inhabiting Pepper Street, average American suburbia, where propriety is always maintained but a constant undercurrent of malice and dissatisfaction is detectable, in Jackson's distinctly misanthropic view.
- Shirley Jackson
