^ "Why You Should Read Shirley Jackson".The episode originally aired on February 16, 1982. Joanne Woodward directed an adaptation of the novel Come Along with Me as an episode of the PBS anthology series American Playhouse in 1982, with a cast led by Estelle Parsons and Sylvia Sidney. It is written in a more light-hearted style than many of Jackson's other works. After the death of her husband, Hughie, Angela sells her house and personal belongings in order to move to a strange city, where she sets up a business as a medium in her new boarding house. The incomplete titular novel, Come Along with Me, centres on the inner life of a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman. Īs of 2015, Come Along with Me was featured in the collections of more than 1,000 libraries. In 2013, Come Along with Me was reprinted by Penguin Classics. It was listed by The New York Times Book Review among the best fiction of 1968. The collection was published by Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in 1968, three years after Jackson's death, and includes a preface by him. It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, " The Lottery". Come Along with Me is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson.
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