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Stanley Edgar Hyman (1919–1970)

Autor(a) de The Magic of Shirley Jackson

16+ Works 335 Membros 4 Críticas

About the Author

Obras por Stanley Edgar Hyman

Associated Works

A Clockwork Orange (1962) — Posfácio, algumas edições25,760 exemplares
Come Along with Me (1968) — Editor — 487 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1919-06-11
Data de falecimento
1970-07-29
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Vermont, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Educação
Syracuse University
Ocupações
literary critic
teacher
jazz critic
Relações
Jackson, Shirley (wife)
Pettingell, Phoebe (2nd wife)
Hyman, Laurence Jackson (son)
Dewitt, Sarah Hyman (daughter)
Organizações
The New Yorker
Bennington College
Prémios e menções honrosas
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1967)

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Best known as Shirley Jackson's husband.

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Contains:
Short stories --
The bird's nest --
Life among the savages --
Raising demons.
 
Assinalado
Lemeritus | 3 outras críticas | Nov 18, 2021 |
A compilation of Jackson's novel, two memoirs, and several short stories. Expresses the breadth of Jackson's writing talent.
 
Assinalado
aaroper | 3 outras críticas | Jun 19, 2018 |
Published shortly after Jackson's death by her widower, Stanley Edgar Hyman, The Magic of Shirley Jackson consists of eleven of her short stories (all from the 25-story collection The Lottery and Other Stories), her novel The Bird's Nest, and her two volumes of suburban-housewife comic memoirs Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons.

It's a convenient collection of some of Jackson's work, but it's not for a first-time Jackson reader, who would be far better off with the 2010 Library of America Jackson edition, which includes the complete collection of The Lottery and Other Stories, an assortment of uncollected/unpublished stories, and her two most important novels, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

The stories which Hyman included in The Magic of Shirley Jackson are too limited in number, and The Bird's Nest, a novel about multiple personality disorder, is perhaps a bit clichéd (though not of course through Jackson's fault) in the post-Sybil era. Much more interesting are the suburban-housewife comedies, and The Magic of Shirley Jackson is of value for their sake along with the convenience, for the sake of "Jackson completeness," of the inclusion of The Bird's Nest with them in a single volume.

Considering that The Magic of Shirley Jackson is long out-of-print though obtainable from used-book dealers, a first-time Jackson reader would be best off with the Library of America edition; but for the Jackson aficionado looking for "Jackson completeness," The Magic of Shirley Jackson, especially with its suburban-housewife comedies, could be a worthwhile library addition – and hence its 4****.
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CurrerBell | 3 outras críticas | Nov 27, 2016 |
Short stories.--The bird's nest.--Life among the savages--Raising demons. Other authors: Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970, ed.
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provinceoftheheart | 3 outras críticas | Jul 21, 2009 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
16
Also by
2
Membros
335
Popularidade
#71,019
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
4
ISBN
13

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