{"product_id":"9780141191430","title":"The Lottery and Other Stories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jackson, Shirley\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 1 October 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 198 x 25 | 238g\u003cp\u003e'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'  Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories,  including  'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories  of the  twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Stephen King.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his  own guests; a  woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for  her  husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efarming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost  is  chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecruelty by a master of the short story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackson's chilling tales have the  power to unsettle and terrify unlike  any other. She was born in  California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esince become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Her  stories are stunning, timeless - as relevant and terrifying now as  when  they were first published ... 'The Lottery' is so much an icon in  the  history of the American short story that one could argue it has  moved  from the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly into  the  American psyche, our collective unconscious' A. M. Homes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackson, Shirley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52266606756024,"sku":"9780141191430","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780141191430.jpg?v=1762870767","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780141191430","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}