We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
 

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

by Shirley Jackson

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. (read review)

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"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead."

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  • DonnaD

    donnad said:

    My favourite book, period.
    I buy it whenever I see it to give to friends

    posted Monday, August 13 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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