The Road Through the Wall
Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were "nice" people — especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr Roberts, who found relief from the street's unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction. It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.
- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Popular Library
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780445031289
- Settings
- United States of America
- Genres
- fiction, horror, classics, gothic, literature, novels, american
- Release date
- 1976
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