3.7
Трилъри и съспенс
Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune—and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more—like some of her other fictions—as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Аудиокнига): 9781481553650
Дата на публикуване
Аудиокнига: 9 юни 2010 г.
3.7
Трилъри и съспенс
Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune—and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more—like some of her other fictions—as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Аудиокнига): 9781481553650
Дата на публикуване
Аудиокнига: 9 юни 2010 г.
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Ani
5.09.2021 г.
Nicely read, but the book itself is very static, full of purposeless and boring characters. Would not recommend.
Veronika
15.11.2022 г.
Нова любима хорър класика ❤
Avocado
18.10.2023 г.
Creepy & atmospheric but at the same time the loveliest little book!!!!❤️Oh Merricat!!! Nothing more important than sisterhood and cats!!! 👭 🐈⬛🍄Leaving a quote from the book as it sits at the forefront of my mind for some time now after reading it. "We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it."
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