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Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation

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Oct 2016
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Winner of the 2017 Solliès Comics Festival's Best Adult Graphic NovelThe classic short story--now in full colorShirley Jackson???s short story ???The Lottery??? continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing, ???The Lottery??? raises troubling questions about conformity, tradition, and the ritualized violence that may haunt even the most bucolic, peaceful village.This graphic adaptation by Jackson???s grandson Miles Hyman allows readers to experience ???The Lottery??? as never before, or to discover it anew. He has crafted an eerie vision of the hamlet where the tale unfolds and the unforgettable ritual its inhabitants set into motion. Hyman???s full-color, meticulously detailed panels create a noirish atmosphere that adds a new dimension of dread to the original story.Shirley Jackson???s ???The Lottery???: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation stands as a tribute to Jackson, and reenvisions her iconic story as a striking visual narrative.

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First Edition Oct 2016 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 1466896450
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Oct 2016 Hill and Wang ISBN B01LY2K0SL
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