Life Among the Savages
- Schrijfster: Shirley Jackson (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: autobiografische verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Verschenen: 1953
- Heruitgave: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
Recensie en waardering van het boek van Shirley Jackson
- “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)
Flaptekst van de autobiografie van Shirley Jackson
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.