The Lottery
Subtitle: and Other Stories
Edition: 2000 Modern Library edition
Publisher: The Modern Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780679640394
Copyright date: 2000
Description: A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.

Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected.

The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer.
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Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: The intoxicated --; title: The daemon lover --; title: Like Mother used to make --; title: Trial by combat --; title: The villager --; title: My life with R.H. Macy --; title: The witch --; title: The renegade --; title: After you, my dear Alphonse --; title: Charles --; title: Afternoon in linen --; title: Flower garden --; title: Dorothy and my grandmother and the sailors --; title: Colloquy --; title: Elizabeth --; title: A fine old firm --; title: The dummy --; title: Seven types of ambiquity --; title: Come dance with me in Ireland --; title: Of course --; title: Pillar of salt --; title: Men with their big shoes --; title: The tooth --; title: Got a letter from Jimmy --; title: The lottery --; title: Epilogue.