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Life Among The Savages

by Shirley Jackson
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, August of 2019 ‧
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"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

Life Among The Savages

by Shirley Jackson

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241387801
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: August of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 12 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: Penguin Modern Classics
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Memories and Testimonies
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780241387801

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) é considerada uma das mais influentes escritoras norte-americanas. Herdeira da grande tradição do gótico americano, iniciada com Edgar Allan Poe, teve uma vida curta, deixando, porém, uma obra que a consolidou como uma das grandes personalidades literárias do século XX. Obteve imediato êxito e fama com a publicação, em 1948, do conto A Lotaria, que, à época, dividiu opiniões e suscitou acesas polémicas. Ao todo, escreveu cinquenta e cinco contos; e, da sua obra, destacam-se ainda as crónicas familiares Life Among the Savages e Raising Demons, bem como os romances The Sundial, A Maldição de Hill House, adaptado várias vezes para cinema e televisão, e Sempre Vivemos no Castelo, último livro da autora, publicado em 1962.

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