{"product_id":"let-me-tell-you","title":"Let Me Tell You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the peerless author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lottery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind, which was ruminant and generous ... For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' - Paul Theroux, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Shirley Jackson made a reputation with a short story in 1948. Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and never forgot it. \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction and occasional writings, kicking off with a story of a dozen pages, 'Paranoia', which I won't forget, either' - Tom Stoppard, \u003ci\u003eTLS Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32122761248851,"sku":"9780241198209","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241198209.jpg?v=1771573533","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/let-me-tell-you","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}