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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGE...

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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