Life Among the Savages
Life Among the Savages

Life Among the Savages

Shirley Jackson (Author) ... more
Penguin Modern Classics (Series) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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HK$118.00 HK$180.00
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Product Info
English • Age Adult - Adult
240 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 x 0.6 in
Approx. weight: 0.43 lb
Publication date: 05 May,2015
Barcode: 9780143128045 • Penguin Books / Penguin Classics
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
  • Memoirs
  • Short stories
  • Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction

Description

By: Shirley Jackson  

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



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