Life Among the Savages - Penguin Modern Classics

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In Life Among the Savages, her caustically funny account of raising her children in a ramshackle house in Vermont, she deals with rats in the cellar, misbehaving imaginary friends, an oblivious husband and ever-encroaching domestic chaos, all described with wit, warmth and plenty of bite. 'Jackson's family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood' The New York Times Book Review'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' Guardian

ISBN:	9780241387801
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	01 Aug 2019
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	229
Weight:	180g
Height:	198mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	14mm

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