We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Published on 1. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-14-119145-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt
Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family.
With an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates
'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master' A. M. Homes
'A masterpiece of Gothic suspense' Joyce Carol Oates
'If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ... you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman
Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family.
With an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates
'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master' A. M. Homes
'A masterpiece of Gothic suspense' Joyce Carol Oates
'If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ... you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman
Reviews / Votes
Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go. -- Donna Tartt The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master. -- A. M. Homes A masterpiece of Gothic suspense. -- Joyce Carol Oates If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ... you have missed out on something marvellous. -- Neil Gaiman Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go -- Donna Tartt This novel brings back all my faith in terror and death. I can say no higher of it and her -- Dorothy Parker * Esquire * An amazing writer -- Neil Gaiman The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master -- A. M. Homes A masterpiece of Gothic suspense -- Joyce Carol Oates So eerie, so disturbing, and not a wasted word, it has the kind of economy I wish I knew how to achieve -- Jonathan CoeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-119145-4 (9780141191454)
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Person
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.