Shirley Jackson Hangsaman review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse gothic novel uit 1951. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Hangsaman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Shirley Jackson. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Shirley Jackson Hangsaman review en recensie
- “The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable … It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse.” (A.M. Homes)
- “Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.” (Dorothy Parker)
- “Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written.” (Donna Tartt)
Hangsaman
- Auteur: Shirley Jackson (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1951, gothic novel
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 3,99 / £ 13,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1951 van Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student.
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.
Shirley Jackson was born on 14 December 1916 in San Francisco, California. When her short story, The Lottery, was first published in 
the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House (De geesten van Hill House) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (We hebben altijd in een kasteel gewoond), widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died on 8 August 1965 in North Bennington, Vermont, at the age of 48, due to a heart condition.