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1edwinbcn
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. It includes "The Lottery", "The Tooth" and 23 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
Jackson's original title for this collection was The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris. Characters named James Harris appear in the stories "The Daemon Lover," "Like Mother Used to Make," "Elizabeth" and "Of Course." Other characters with the surname Harris appear or are referenced in "The Villager," "The Renegade," "Flower Garden," "A Fine Old Firm" and "Seven Types of Ambiguity." The collection also contains a short excerpt from the traditional ballad "The Daemon Lover," in which the title character's name is James Harris.
2rebeccanyc
My brief review of this book.
Like many, I read "The Lottery" in high school ( a LONG time ago now) and have never forgotten it (who could?), but I had never read any other short stories by Shirley Jackson. The stories in this collection vary in interest and intensity, but all are disturbing in some way. Jackson is excellent at deflating the pompous, the conventional, the unconsciously racist in 40s and 50s US society, at examining sad and uncommunicative relationships between men and women, and at throwing a little twist of the supernatural in on occasion.
Like many, I read "The Lottery" in high school ( a LONG time ago now) and have never forgotten it (who could?), but I had never read any other short stories by Shirley Jackson. The stories in this collection vary in interest and intensity, but all are disturbing in some way. Jackson is excellent at deflating the pompous, the conventional, the unconsciously racist in 40s and 50s US society, at examining sad and uncommunicative relationships between men and women, and at throwing a little twist of the supernatural in on occasion.
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