Hangsaman
A thoroughly modern take on the coming-of-age story.
Natalie is a young girl with an active inner life – active to the point where she has to work to keep the people around her and the people in her mind separate. When she leaves home for an all-girls dorm at a liberal arts college, things only get more confused.
Told from the perspective of a narrator who may or may not be Natalie, Hangsaman is a brilliant fusion of the bildungsroman and gothic traditions with an entirely twentieth century sensibility.
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January 5, 2016Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Sundial; two bestselling family chronicles, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons; and hundreds of short stories, many published in five separate posthumous collections. She died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight.