Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson's stunningly creepy fourth novel, The SundialWhen the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden.
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.
240 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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Book Synopsis

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson's stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial

When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.

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Review Quotes

"This is Shirley Jackson at her best. This novel of 12 people in a lonely house awaiting the end of the world will keep you up all night."

--Pensacola News Journal

"The Sundial is entertaining, absorbing and disturbing."
--Chicago Tribune

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.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, the novel Big Machine, and several other works of fiction. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the PEN/Open Book Award, he lives in Queens, New York.

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Weight: .42 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Literary

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Number of Pages: 240

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Format: Paperback

Author: Shirley Jackson

Language: English

Street Date: January 28, 2014

TCIN: 79268406

UPC: 9780143107064

Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-4688

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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