The Road Through The Wall, Hangsaman, And, The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
A trio of mid-century psychological novels examines how ordinary domestic life and social expectations can fracture perception and identity: communities and families that appear stable conceal cruelty, conformity, and isolation; impressionable young women respond by withdrawing into vivid inner lives, hallucination, or dissociation; and medical, educational, and neighborly institutions meant to govern behavior instead amplify vulnerability. Moving from the uneasy tensions of a new suburban development through a teenager’s disorienting coming-of-age spiral to a fragile woman’s splintering sense of self under intrusive care, the stories turn familiar settings into sites of quiet menace and incisive critique of postwar social norms.
- Published
- 1948
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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