Life Among the Savages
- Author Shirley Jackson
- Narrator Kate Handford
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 8 October 2020
- Run Time 7 hours and 6 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biographical fiction, Biography and non-fiction prose, Memoirs, Short stories.
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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
© Shirley Jackson 1953 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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 masterpieces
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