Life Among the Savages av Shirley Jackson

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<p><b>A darkly funny account of family life from the author of <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> and <i>The Lottery</i></b><br><br><i>''Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children''</i><br><br>As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In <i>Life Among the Savages</i>, 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. <br><br>''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'' <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>''Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath'' <i>G