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O Homem da Forca by Shirley Jackson

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sheepchase's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

truly atmospheric prose, brilliant unreliable narrator. sinister, neurotic, hyper-surreal. not much plot but the novel unravels itself all the same

lowells's review against another edition

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3.0

Tricky one to rate and I feel it’s a strong three. This is not an easy book, in fact, it’s very strange and you end up with more questions than answers by the end. However, it’s a good kind of strange with Jackson leaving it to the reader to drawn their own conclusions as to what is going on.

endointhewild's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

jarcher's review against another edition

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4.0

Every Shirley Jackson novel I read I love more than the last. No one writes interior monologue like Jackson, and her biting critiques of heteronormative culture are timeless. While the beat gen boys were publishing stream of consciousness diaries and riding privilege into the literary canon, Shirley Jackson was producing some of the most elegant prose ever written.