We Have Always Lived in the Castle - (Penguin Orange Collection) by Shirley Jackson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1962.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback</b> <p/><b>Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition</b> <p/> For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. <p/><b><i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle </i>is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson's brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A marvelous elucidation of life...a story full of craft and full of mystery" --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><p>"A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" --<i>The New York Times <p/></i>"I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i>." --George Saunders<i> <p/></i>"Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible." --Marlon James<i><br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Shirley Jackson</b> (1916-1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was first published in the <i>New Yorker</i> in 1948. Her works available from Penguin Classics include <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i>, <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i>, <i>Come Along with Me</i>, <i>Hangsaman</i>, <i>The Bird's Nest</i>, and <i>The Sundial</i>, as well as <i>Life Among the Savages</i> and <i>Raising Demons </i>available from Penguin Books.
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