Life Among the Savages Paperback / softback
by Shirley Jackson
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
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- ISBN:9780241387801
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241387801
