Hangsaman
A Fiction, Novels, Gothic book. Dearest dearest darling most important dearest darling Natalie-this is me...
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.Inspired by the unsolved disappearance...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780141391984 / 141391987
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Perhapsand this was her most persistent thought, the thought that stayed with her and came suddenly to trouble her at odd moments, and to comfort hersuppose, actually, she were not Natalie Waite, college girl, daughter to Arnold Waite, a creature of deep lovely destiny; suppose she were someone else? Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman // You see, said Tony, her voice still soft so as not to be overheard, but somehow fierce and angry, it frightens me when people try to grab at us like that. I cant sit still and just let people watch me and talk to me and ask me questions. You see, she said again, as though trying to moderate her words and explain, they want to pull us back, and start us all over again just like them and doing the things they want to do and acting the way they want to act and saying and thinking and wanting all the things they live with every day. Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman... It isn't any single thing," Mrs. Waite repeated earnestly, the tears on her cheeks, "It's just thatwell, look, Natalie. This is the only life I've gotyou understand? I mean, this is all. And look what's happening to me. I spend most of my time just thinking about how nice things used to be and wondering if they'll ever be nice again. If I should go on and on and die someday and nothing was ever nice againwouldn't that be a fine thing? I get to feeling like that and then I think I'll make things be nice, and make him behave, and just make everything all...
- , We Have Always Been in the Castle Haunting of Hill House, , /. , . : , . . - , We Have Always Been in the Castle Haunting of Hill House, , /. , . : , . . , . , . - . , - - . . , . . , . , , , . . , , . , . . , . . "show, don't tell". , , . . , . , , . . , . ; . . . ' . If you are looking for horror in the contemporary sense, then you need to look elsewhere. It's amusing how the publishers of the early paperback (pulp) versions of this novel tried to make it look like simple suspense, and though it is suspenseful, it's not in the way most contemporary horror or mystery would be, and I'm sure many people... It occurred to me, back in October, that I probably read a lot more male authors than female--not because--at least I hope not because--I'm sexist, but because my culture is and one is nothing if not a product of many crosscurrents of life--culture, family, language, education, etc. etc. So, thanks to Goodreads I was able to chart just...
