Word: hangsaman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal-looking girl who lives in a private nightmare of someone else's making. This heroine is usually close enough to sanity to be alarmed by her own fantasies, near enough to a strait-jacket to invite immediate psychoanalysis. The familiar formula, which worked almost magically well in Hangsaman (TIME, April 23, 1951). but began to look a bit seedy in The Bird's Nest (TIME, June 21, 1954), still carries a lot of the Jackson punch...
...racing axiom has it that a thoroughbred always returns to its best form. In The Lottery and Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson gave signs of being a writing thoroughbred, but The Bird's Nest marks only scattered returns to her best form...
...Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson. An eerie story of a young girl's descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April...
...Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson. An eerie story of a young girl's, descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April...
...Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson. An eerie story of a young girl's descent into schizophrenia (TIME, April...