Life Among the Savages
€14.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241387801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.180 |
| Publishing Date | 01/08/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.92 |
| Tax | €0.83 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.75 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product 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