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The Road Through the Wall
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The Road Through the Wall Paperback - 2013

by Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Ruth Franklin

Summary

Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.

From the publisher

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Her works available from Penguin Classics include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, and Come Along with Me and Life Among the Savages available from Penguin.
 
Ruth Franklin is currently working on a biography of Shirley Jackson and is a book critic and contributing editor at the New Republic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
 

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  • Title The Road Through the Wall
  • Author Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Ruth Franklin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Date 2013-06-25
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143107057 / 0143107054
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.12 x 0.57 in (19.61 x 13.00 x 1.45 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Suburban
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects California, Suspense fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013005495
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Her works available from Penguin Classics include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, and Come Along with Me and Life Among the Savages available from Penguin.

Ruth Franklin is currently working on a biography of Shirley Jackson and is a book critic and contributing editor at the New Republic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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