The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson

Original title: The bird's nest

first published 1954 Adelphi, 2014 318 pages

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Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson's characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl--but four separate, self-dest...

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The bird's nest edition · 2014 · Penguin Books · 256 pages · 9780143107033
The Bird's Nest edition · 2014 · Penguin Classics · 274 pages · 9780698148215
Lizzie edition · 2014 · Adelphi · 318 pages · 9788845928918
The Bird's Nest edition · 2001 · Penguin Classics · 9780141391946
The Bird's Nest hardcover · 1993 · Yestermorrow · 9781567230642
The bird's nest edition · 1986 · Arbor House · 276 pages

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