Susan Scarf Merrell
Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of a previous novel, A Member of the Family, and a nonfiction work, The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton and is Fiction Editor of TSR: The Southampton Review.
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Shirley
- By: Susan Scarf Merrell
- Narrator: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 24, 2014
- Language: English
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3.42(950 ratings)
Two imposing literary figures are at the center of this captivating novel: Shirley Jackson, best known for her short story ‘The Lottery,’ and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife – Fred and Rose Nemser – move into Shirley and Stanley’s home in the fall of 1964, they are quickly cast under the magnetic spell of their brilliant hosts. While Fred becomes preoccupied with his teaching schedule, Rose forms an unlikely, turbulent friendship with the troubled and unpredictable Shirley. Fascinated by the Hyman’s volatile marriage and inexplicable drawn to the darkly enigmatic author, Rose nevertheless senses something amiss – something to do with nightly unanswered phone calls and inscrutable accounts of a long-missing female student.
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