Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell

Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell

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"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

Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of A Member of the Family, a novel, and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Ties Impact Adult Relationships, a nonfiction work. She is the Fiction Editor of TSR: The Southampton Review and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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ISBN 13	9780147516190
ISBN 10	0147516196
Title	Shirley
Author	Susan Scarf Merrell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2015-07-07
Number of pages	288
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