The Bird's Nest (novel)

The Bird's Nest

First edition
Author	Shirley Jackson
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1954
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Young
Pages	276

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]

References

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, ..."