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The Lottery and Other Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374529536
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0374529531
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 16, 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: March 09, 2005
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Editorial Review:
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Best Literature You Will EVER Read
The only bad thing I can say about this collection is that it makes me want to suffer head trauma so that I can forget the stories and read them again in their NEWNESS. Singing Shirley Jackson's praises is like pointing out the blueness of the sky. Just read this. It'll ruin you for all other writers, but in the most divine sense.
Rating: - My All-Time Favorite Book
As a fiction writer, this is the book I study. I can return to this book again and again, overwhelmed by Shirley Jackon's absolute, subtle brilliance. She writes with a smoothness and an ease that borders on the eerie. I could sing the praises of this book all night.
Rating: - Brilliant stories from a literary fifth columnist
My favourite living author of the offbeat, macabre story is Joyce Carol Oates. This prolific woman, who can seemingly pen an entire novel while having a bath, has compiled a formidable opus of stories which Alberto Manguel appropriately describes as Black Water stories. I haven't read any of her many other types of novel and short story, but if I were handing out Nobel prizes, I would grab back any of the prizes handed out in the last twenty years (they seem to be awarded on the basis of some kind ... Read More
Rating: - Pointless ritualism
A fantastic critique of the pointlessness of rituals...such as meat-eating...racism...speciesism...homophobia.
The text is available for free on the internet...but Jackson should be in everyone's collection.
Rating:  - Always a pleaser....
Shirley Jackson is currently one of my favorite authors. (And, incidentily always has been, since elementary school.) She is the author that everyone has some sort of familiarity with, unbeknownst to them. From The Lottery, to The Haunting of Hill House, to We Have Always Lived In the Castle, there is a sort of haunting timelessness in her work. No matter where you grew up, what your background, you will always find a common thread to link you to her world. And in her world, you will find, (if you ... Read More
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