Let me Tell You

Resumen del libro

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose.

This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist.

Biografía del autor

Estudió en la Universidad de Syracuse. En 1948 aparecieron su primera novela, The Road Through the Wall, y el cuento La lotería , ya convertido en un clásico. En 1962 publicó Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, considerada por la revista Time como una de las diez mejores novelas de ese año.