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Just an Ordinary Day
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  • Published: 20 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141983202
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $28.00

Just an Ordinary Day

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20 Mar 2017
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A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'

An anxious devil, a malicious old woman and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this collection of brilliant stories from the author of 'The Lottery'.
  • Published: 20 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141983202
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for Just an Ordinary Day

A dark, disturbing, wonderful treat ... A collection to press on people and demand they read

Alison Flood, The Bookseller

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable

A. M. Homes

One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses

Paul Theroux, The New York Times Book Review

For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection

Publishers Weekly

Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation

San Francisco Chronicle