The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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(Paperback - Second Edition)
- Pub. Date: March 2005
- 320pp
- Sales Rank: 59,947
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2005
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format: Paperback, 320pp
- Sales Rank: 59,947
- ISBN-13: 9780374529536
- ISBN: 0374529531
- Edition Number: 2
- Edition Description: Second Edition
Synopsis
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.
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The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Shirley Jackson, born in 1919, was the author of numerous books, including Hangsman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. For the last twenty years of her life, until her death in 1965, she lived in North Bennington, Vermont.
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May 09, 2006: Very barbaric and is about a village which believes in superstition. However, there is irony in the story and it is a good book.
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April 04, 2006: While Shirley Jackson's prose is always readable, I often finished a story and wondered what happened to the ending. Many of her pieces are the slice-of-life variety, showing an event in someone's life, but not making it clear why I or anyone else should care about them. 'Dorothy and My grandmother and the Sailors,' is that kind of story, where a young girl and her friend have a minor encounter with sailors during a shopping trip. So minor that the story is really just a set of impressions of the day. I've never found stories like that particularly compelling, and Jackson hasn't changed my mind. Then there are other stories that dig in and show what makes people tick. In 'Flower Garden,' a lonely wife is thrilled to get a new neighbor and becomes close friends with her, until her friend ends up being too friendly with a local black family. As the racist town begins to turn on the woman and give her the silent treatment, the wife slowly turns on her as well, fearful of being an outcast even in a city where she had no friends to begin with. Unfortunately, stories like that are rare in this book. There are other good ones as well, some hilarious, like 'Charles,' and some scary, like 'The Lottery,' but most are random views of people's lives, like 'The Intoxicated,' that left me unsatisfied and untouched.
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