Just an Ordinary Day (Penguin Modern Classics)

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

An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters 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 brilliant collection of short stories.

'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

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

O colectie remarcabila de nuvele intunecate, amuzante si obsedante de la inimitabilul autor al „Loteriei”. Un diavol nelinistit, un scriitor in varsta de scrisori cu stilou otravitor si un Jack Spintecatorul de la mijlocul secolului; o urmarire, desi un oras de cosmar, plimbarea cu trenul palpitant a unui baietel cu o hota si un oras in care posibilitatea raului se ascunde in spatele trandafirilor perfecti.