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Just an Ordinary Day

1997-12-01 Fiction
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Release : 1997-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 333/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Just an Ordinary Day by : Shirley Jackson

Download or read book Just an Ordinary Day written by Shirley Jackson. This book was released on 1997-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection. Here are tales of torment, psychological aberration, and the macabre, as well as those that display her lighter touch with humorous scenes of domestic life. Reflecting the range and complexity of Jackson’s talent, Just an Ordinary Day reaffirms her enduring influence and celebrates her singular voice, rich with magic and resonance. Praise for Shirley Jackson “[Jackson’s] work exerts an enduring spell.”—Joyce Carol Oates “Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written.”—Donna Tartt “An amazing writer . . . If you haven’t read [Jackson] you have missed out on something marvelous.”—Neil Gaiman “Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.”—Dorothy Parker “An author who not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of.”—Francine Prose “The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.”—A. M. Homes “Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.”—Victor LaValle

An Ordinary Day

2001 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2001
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis An Ordinary Day by : Libby Gleeson

Download or read book An Ordinary Day written by Libby Gleeson. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary day is not so ordinary when Jack starts daydreaming on his way to school.

Ordinary Days

2006-12-01 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2006-12-01
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 562/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ordinary Days by : Dorcas Smucker

Download or read book Ordinary Days written by Dorcas Smucker. This book was released on 2006-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into the "thousand-story house." Then there was the four-week road trip, which, Dorcas says, "My sister-in-law warned me would be like putting your whole family in the bathroom and staying there for three days." There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voice—encouraging, doubting, entertaining, but never taking herself too seriously. Often slightly off-stride, and with disarming humility, Dorcas keeps finding resource in her life at home.

An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days

2010-06-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-06-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days by : Susan Wittig Albert

Download or read book An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days written by Susan Wittig Albert. This book was released on 2010-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the events—whether in daily life or on a global scale—that shape our lives. In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinking about issues in the wider world—from wars and economic recession to climate change—caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life. Albert's journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writing life, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, "What does it mean? And what ought I do about it?", she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us as readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be.

One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts

1979 Human behavior
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Release : 1979
Genre : Human behavior
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Book Synopsis One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts by : Shirley Jackson

Download or read book One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts written by Shirley Jackson. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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