![]() ![]() When she completed it, Doubleday imposed its own title (avoiding any mention of nuclear war), revising the text to create a happier ending, and wrapping the novel in a nondescript dust jacket. Merril quit her editorial job at Bantam to complete it. Bradbury read the incomplete draft and bought the novel. Merril began writing Shadow on the Hearth as a short story "When it reached ten thousand words," she remembered, "I began to understand that it wanted to be a novel." Although she stopped working on the piece when it reached twice that length, needing to spend more time with her young daughter, Doubleday editor Walter I. Merril described it as "a very political novel. Shadow on the Hearth tells the story of "a Westchester woman and her two children after the explosion of a series of atomic bombs on New York". ![]() No American paperback of Shadow on the Hearth has ever been published, although a book club edition appeared. It was included in Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow, a 2008 NESFA Press omnibus compiling all Merril's novels (the other two written in collaboration with Cyril M. Italian translations appeared in 19 a German translation was issued in 1982. A British hardcover was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1953, with a paperback following from Compact Books in 1966. ![]() Shadow on the Hearth is a science fiction novel by American writer Judith Merril, originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1950. ![]()
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