Life Among the Savages Paperback by Shirley Jackson

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2015-05-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143128045
• Item Weight: 181.44 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 cm

In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.  

In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family’s life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist’s gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.

About the Author

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.