Ruth Franklin Books
The Road Through The Wall
By Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Jackson, Shirley, Franklin, Ruth
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 c...
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A Thousand Darknesses
What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the f...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master. Still kno...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
By Ruth Franklin, Franklin, Ruth, Author
Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House . In this remarkable act of reclamation...
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Granta 101
By LOUISE DEAN, Joshua Ferris, Douglas Coupland, Annie Proulx, Robert Macfarlane, Ruth Franklin, ANDREW HUSSEY, OWEN SHEERS, Hilary Mantel, Robin Robertson, Tim Lott, Janice Galloway, Rick Moody, Jason Cowley, Gautier Deblonde, Xan Rice, Akash Keyes Kapur
Includes fiction and reports from blitzed Beijing and photographs from the Arctic.
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Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA 336)
By Shirley Jackson Ruth Franklin Ed.
From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror.Shirley Jackson--the beloved author of The Lottery, The Haun...
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