Shirley Jackson
Posted: January 23rd, 2018, 7:56 pm
Have just discovered this author after picking up her last written book (which critics claim as her greatest) "We Have Always Lived in the Castle".
I'm a bit stunned by reading this book - a slim volume where I feel not a single word was wasted. I find it hard to know how to describe the genre into which it fits. On the back cover a quote by Paul Theroux says "One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses". Personally I think I'd regard it as a horror story of a very refined type.
Any one else read this author? Reactions?
Lynn
I'm a bit stunned by reading this book - a slim volume where I feel not a single word was wasted. I find it hard to know how to describe the genre into which it fits. On the back cover a quote by Paul Theroux says "One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses". Personally I think I'd regard it as a horror story of a very refined type.
Any one else read this author? Reactions?
Lynn