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Probing the Darkness
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880717
Author:Michael Dirda
PRIVATE DEMONS The Life of Shirley Jackson By Judy Oppenheimer Putnam. 304 pp. $19.95
IS THERE ANY story in modern American fiction more widely known than "The Lottery"? And is there any author, so nearly a major figure, who is so underappreciated and half-forgotten as Shirley Jackson? Despite the immense success of quite possibly the most chilling tale in our literature-the main competition is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper"-Jackson is no one-work author: "The Summer People," "Seven Types of Ambiguity" and "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" are nearly as haunting in their ...
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