Description
In a quiet New Hampshire town, an amiable auctioneer named Perly Dunsmore arrives promising opportunity, prosperity, and a fresh start for everyone. As his auctions become increasingly intrusive and the townspeople surrender more of their property and independence, neighborly cooperation gives way to fear and submission. A chilling work of psychological horror, the novel explores conformity, greed, social pressure, and how ordinary communities can become complicit in their own oppression. Its understated, steadily escalating style makes the familiar landscape feel disturbingly vulnerable.
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Published Jan 1, 1975
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Details
First Published
1975
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Auctioneer by Joan Samson.