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9780241387801 - Penguin Modern Classics   Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson Kartoniert (TB)
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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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