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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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Publication: 1 Aug 2019
, Penguin
ISBN: 9780241387801
Extent: 240 pages

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      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

       

      Paperback
      Publication: 1 Aug 2019
      , Penguin
      ISBN: 9780241387801
      Extent: 240 pages

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