{"product_id":"9780241387801","title":"Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson","description":"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","brand":"Shirley Jackson","offers":[{"title":"240 pages \/ 01\/08\/2019 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57415326728567,"sku":"9780241387801","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780241387801.jpg?v=1787878978","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780241387801","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}