# Life Among the Savages

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- Authors: [Shirley Jackson](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-jackson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-08-01

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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 © Shirley Jackson 1953 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

## Editions

### Life Among the Savages

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 6 min
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-490-1
- Published: 2020-10-08
- Language: en_GB

### Life Among the Savages

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-780-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2019-08-01
- Language: en_GB

### Life Among the Savages

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-781-8
- Published: 2019-08-01
- Language: en_GB

### Life Among the Savages

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-804-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2015-05-05
- Language: en_US