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Book Review of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Wonderfully neurotic, disturbing read. It's creepy, it's funny, it's believable. There's nothing supernatural, but there is gothic feel, and madness, and the dreadful, insurmountable feel of inertia that so fits American rural settings. Jackson also makes the absolutely crazy situation and lifestyle the main characters set up -- alluring.

I want to say it was set in the South, because I get that same sense as one gets in Faulkner, or in Tennessee Williams plays, where no matter what weather you're sitting in, you feel hot, oppressed, and lethargic.