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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241387801Number of pages: 240Weight: 179 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Is it ironic or fitting that some of the greatest American writing about that venerated and difficult activity,motherhood,comes from a horror writer...There is something rather magical about how Jackson managed to so transform suffering into comic masterpiecesAs warm as it is hilarious and believable...Never has the state of domestic chaos been so perfectly illuminatedWarm and funny...Read today,her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because Jackson refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhoodCharming...You'll see every parenting stance you've ever adopted,every parent-story trope you've ever told or heard,expressed more perfectly than you ever could have...One of the great memoirists of family lifeA housewife-mother's frustrations are transformed by a deft twist of the wrist into,not a grim account of disintegration and madness,still less the poisoning of her family,but light-hearted comedy
Shirley Jackson
One of the foremost authors of twentieth-century supernatural fiction,Shirley Jackson is best known for the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle,and the short story The Lottery.
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