The Bird's Nest
by Shirley Jackson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG front board is slightly warped. Stated first printing. 276pp. IN a VG- dust jacket with small chips and tears to the top and
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girlbut four separate, self-destructive personalities. The Bird’s Nest , Jackson’s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48538
- Title
- The Bird's Nest
- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - VG front board is slightly warped. Stated first printing. 276pp. IN a VG- dust jacket with small chips and tears to the top and
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, and Young
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Shirley Jackson
Terms of Sale
Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...