The Road Through the Wall (Penguin Classics) The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary careerPepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics repr
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| Title | : | The Road Through the Wall (Penguin Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143107054 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-25 |
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The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career
Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provi
Editorial : About the Author
Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Her works available from Penguin Classics include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, and Come Along with Me and Life Among the Savages available from Penguin.Ruth Franklin is currently working on a biography of Shirley Jackson and is a book critic and contributing editor at the New Republic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
I think we can see this clearly. I wasn't sure when I started reading the first book but quickly became immersed in the story line. She illustrates her points with pertinent anecdotes that make the book engaging to read, but the content is definitely "lite," meaning both general and thin on substance. We see it in all its flashy colours on the television screen each night as the reporters give us their big, toothy smiles. For example, she is wallowing in self-pity about the demise of her marriage without doing anything at all to save it (and no, one lame attempt at sex doesn’t count).
Or let’s look at her job. I went to the local book store and looked through the 4-5 InDesign CS5 books there, and ended up with this one.
It's a nice size for a reference book (about one inch thick), is reasonably priced, printed on quality matte paper and in full color throughout.
The thing that drew me to it is that it's basically a collection of tasks and how to d
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