Shirley Shirley

Shirley

A Novel

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Publisher Description

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS AND MICHAEL STUHLBARG! 

“Susan Scarf Merrell brilliantly weaves events from Shirley Jackson’s life into a hypnotic story line”* in this darkly thrilling novel about the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery.

Two imposing literary figures are at the heart of this captivating novel: celebrated author Shirley Jackson and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife—Fred and Rose Nemser—move into Shirley and Stanley’s home in the fall of 1964, they quickly fall under the magnetic spell of their brilliant and unconventional hosts.

While Fred becomes preoccupied with his teaching schedule, Rose forms an unlikely, turbulent friendship with the troubled and unpredictable Shirley. Fascinated by the Hymans’ volatile marriage and inexplicable drawn to the darkly enigmatic author, Rose nonetheless senses something amiss—something to do with nightly unanswered phone calls and inscrutable accounts of a long-missing female student. Chillingly atmospheric and evocative of Jackson’s own classic stories, Shirley is an elegant thriller with one of America’s greatest horror writers at its heart.

*The Washington Post

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2014
June 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

ChilGirl ,

A must read

If you are a fan of Shirley Jackson, or of her writing, or both as I am, you will find this book as unputdownable as I did. If you haven't read Jackson (you should) you will still love this complex, intimate and lyrical story of yearning to be someone in a world of someone , and discovering that perhaps the majority of us are ordinary no ones.

Agl6571 ,

What a read...

Dark and scary!! It is honestly hard to believe that Shirley is a novel and not a true story. I could not put it down. Great book to get lost in.

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