- Fiction, Young women, Lesbian youth, Fiction, general
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Popular Library, Ace Publishing Corp., Ace Star
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780141391984
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Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. **Source**: [Shirley Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson) on Wikipedia.
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