Shirley Jackson
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The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
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2015.
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English
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In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature...
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Fiordo
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2019
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Español
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Imaginemos una gran casa ambientada como un film de Tim Burton, habitada por personajes de una comedia de Jane Austen observados bajo una lupa de vidrio oscuro, donde suceden hechos escalofriantes que parecen salidos de un cuento de Edgar Allan Poe. Y ahora agitemos: esto es El reloj de sol, una de las mejores novelas de Shirley Jackson. En El reloj de sol la familia Halloran espera el fin del mundo confinada, junto a unas pocas visitas, en su gran...
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Symphony Space, Inc
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English
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"There is a certain place where dumbwaiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother's mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home." - From The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families - many depicted from a kid's-eye-view - are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth
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