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Old 09-11-2012, 04:58 PM   #21193
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl View Post
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" was a fantastic short story. If you didn't like it in high school PLEASE... read it again now. The realism of the small rural community is incredible. I gave it as an assignment to a Japanese 4th year university English Lit class. Then sat there watching their jaws drop... stunned... then asking their classmate if they actually understood the English correctly...

In fact, I think I'm going to put down my novel, grab a cup of Assam tea, and re-read 'The Lottery.' Brilliant work. Frightening... but brilliant!


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I have never read this and went exploring. I found this New Yorker podcast that I could download. "A. M. Homes reads Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman."

The story begins at 3:00.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008...on_audio_homes
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