The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
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The Sundial

Author: Shirley Jackson, Victor LaValle

Narrator: Kirsten Potter, Dion Graham

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/19/2021


Synopsis

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial

When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.

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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. Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, the novel Big Machine, and several other works of fiction. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the PEN/Open Book Award, he lives in Queens, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

if i don't age into an old lady who wanders off at family parties to have visions of the end of the world in elegant gardens, i don't want to age at all. so let's get that on the record right away. other than that...the book itself. this was like a combination of shirley jackson's memoirs about her fa......more

Goodreads review by Michael

This book is such a wicked pleasure. I give it four stars only to distinguish it from We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House, which are really the pinnacle of Shirley Jackson's art. But the elements are all here, in The Sundial: the old house, the sense of decay and doom,......more

Goodreads review by Fabian

Like a sort of compassionate Oscar Wilde, this romp among the tombstones & all types of Gothic macabre can be experienced like a full-out play. There is an impressive group of characters--eh, automatons--and enough lines of dialogue to tickle anyone's fancy. This is the third Jackson novel I've delv......more


Quotes

"This is Shirley Jackson at her best. This novel of 12 people in a lonely house awaiting the end of the world will keep you up all night."—Pensacola News Journal

"The Sundial is entertaining, absorbing and disturbing."
Chicago Tribune