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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

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Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

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Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears.

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barbara howe, March 21, 2007 (view all comments by barbara howe)
If you like Shirley Jackson and her grotesque images of humanity, if you're feeling cynical about human society, or just like twisted and stunted characters, Jackson's your gal. Best known for the creepy short story The Lottery, her novel We have Always Lived in the Castle is another story about the cruelty of humankind, the incessant social pressure of small towns to keep their members in line and the temptation it all produces to wall yourself off in a castle and never come out! The story is told by a mentally disturbed narrator which provides the reader with an uncomfortable though thrilling closeness to insanity and neurosis and not a small part of the creepiness of the novel is produced by this technique. Jackson is a genius of the most recessed and hidden parts of the human psyche and this novel is one of her best.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780143039976
Author:
Jackson, Shirley
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Introduction:
Lethem, Jonathan
Author:
Lethem, Jonathan
Author:
Ott, Thomas
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Edition Description:
Deluxe
Series:
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Publication Date:
October 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
146
Dimensions:
8.44x5.56x.49 in. .46 lbs.
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