Women and Property

Nov 2020
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson – Penguin Classics, 2009
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This is one of those books that may be too subtle for its own good. I read most of it in a state of mild annoyance with the characters and the author for the obvious things that she was not telling us. It was only towards the end that it snapped into focus and I saw just how clever Jackson was being. As a told tale, it is brilliant. But the moment-to-moment experience of reading it, at least for the first time, was not.
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