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Publisher: Penguin Classics (Penguin Vitae)
Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
On Sale Date: February 23, 2021
ISBN 13: 978-0-14-313483-1
ISBN 10: 0143134833
Format: Hardcover, Paper over boards
Retail Price: $26.00
BISAC: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Gothic; Fiction / Horror
Page Count: 160
Series: Penguin Vitae
Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 in
Weight: 0.5 lb
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Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was born in San Francisco and rose to national attention with her short story “The Lottery” in 1948. Her novels, including The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, are built on ordinary settings that curdle into horror and the uncanny; she also wrote two comic memoirs of family life, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons. This Penguin Vitae edition includes a new afterword by novelist Jonathan Lethem.
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Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it eerie, creepy, and irresistible:
“A marvelous elucidation of life…a story full of craft and full of mystery.” — The New York Times Book Review
“A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty.” — The New York Times
“I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.” — George Saunders
“Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it…the book becomes irresistible.” — Marlon James
This book is for you if
You want a gothic classic that's as unsettling on a fifth read as it was on the first.
You're drawn to unreliable narrators, and Merricat Blackwood is one of fiction's best.
You love a story where the real horror is the village outside the gate, not what's inside the house.
You want the deluxe Penguin Vitae hardcover, with a new afterword by novelist Jonathan Lethem.
You appreciate Shirley Jackson's gift for making the everyday feel quietly, permanently wrong.
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