The bird's nest
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother<U+2019>s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. B...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Penguin Books,
2014.
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Summary: | Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother<U+2019>s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson<U+2019>s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl<U+2014>but four separate, self-destructive personalities. The Bird<U+2019>s Nest, Jackson<U+2019>s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master<U+2019>s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 256 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780143107033 0143107038 |
| Author Notes: | Her published works include articles, nonfiction prose, plays, poetry, seven novels, and fifty-five short stories. Her other works include Life among the Savages, Raising Demons, The Haunting of Hill House, which was adapted to film, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. She died on August 8, 1965 at the age of 45. (Bowker Author Biography) |
