Opis: Life Among the Savages - Jackson Shirley

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 -

Szczegóły: Life Among the Savages - Jackson Shirley

Tytuł: Life Among the Savages
Autor: Jackson Shirley
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
Seria: MODERN CLASSICS
ISBN: 9780241387801
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2019
Ilość stron: 232
Format: 13.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.185 kg

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