The Sundial
A Gothic, Fiction, Literature book. Where did he go, your father?''Africa.''What for?''To shoot lions, of course.''What on Earth for?' said Mrs. Willow blankly.'Some...
Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end....Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she reports the vision she had there, the family is engulfed in fear, violence, and madness. For Aunt Fanny's long-dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!
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- Pages: 222 pages
- ISBN: 9780141391960 / 141391960
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Where did he go, your father?''Africa.''What for?''To shoot lions, of course.''What on Earth for?' said Mrs. Willow blankly.'Some people shoot lions,' the girl said pleasantly, 'and some people do not shoot lions. My father is one of the people who do. Shirley Jackson, The Sundial // I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran. Shirley Jackson, The Sundial // When shall we live if not now? Shirley Jackson, The Sundial //
A walled estate, full of lakes and grottos and mazes. Inside this, a vast mansion, decorated with inspirational quotes. Inside this, a seldom visited floor, set up to replicate the childhood home of one of the inhabitants. Then, smaller still, a dolls house with running water and a working kitchen: a replication of the mansion itself,... I wrote in my previous review (when i didn't finish it) that this book epitomizes Shirley Jackson's Gothic Psychedelia. Aunt Fanny, having a surreal psychotic episode (probably a seizure) sees her father's ghost, who tells her the world will end and all will die but the inhabitants of their family mansion. And everyone there believes... Really a 3.5, but rounding up to 4 because it's Shirley Jackson, and she's just the coolest. Does not approach the grandeur of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, though.For a novel about the (possible) approach of the End of the World, this was way funnier than I expected. Just bizarre. Review to come on Big Reading Life, as this is...
