The Bird's Nest (novel)

The Bird's Nest
cover of Shirley Jackson's "The Bird's Nest," with red and blue veritcal stripes
First edition
AuthorShirley Jackson
LanguageEnglish
Genre
Published1954
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Young
Publication date
1954
Publication placeUnited States
Media typehardcover book
Pages276
ISBN978-0143107033
Preceded byHangsaman
1951 
Followed byThe Sundial
1958 

The Bird's Nest is a 1954 novel by Shirley Jackson.[1] The plot concerns a young woman, Elizabeth Richmond, with multiple personality disorder.[2][3]

  1. ^ The Encyclopedia of the Gothic ed. William Hughes, David Punter, Andrew Smith 1119210410- 2015 - Page 363 "In The Bird's Nest (1954), however, Jackson opens a narrative of personality disintegration by tipping a museum over..."
  2. ^ Elaine Showalter A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx 2009 0748111514 "In The Bird's Nest (1954), Jackson produced a fictional version of The Three Faces of Eve, with a heroine, Elizabeth Richmond, who has multiple personality..."
  3. ^ Bernice M. Murphy Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy 0786423129 2005 -- Page 9 "Interestingly, unlike the single, highly subjective viewpoint of Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest presents a multiplicity of viewpoints ... The Bird's Nest also provides ample evidence of Jackson's wit, and several sections of the text are blackly comic, ..."