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Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
Title:
Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
Author:
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
ISBN:
9780812997668
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. 2015
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 416 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Foreword -- Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction -- I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews -- When This War is Over: Early Short Stories -- Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out the Way We Expected: Humor and Family -- I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: About the Craft of Writing -- Afterword.
Abstract:
"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--Dust jacket flap.