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Life Among the Savages is a collection of short stories edited into novel form, written by Shirley Jackson. Originally these stories were published individually in women's magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Mademoiselle, and others. Published in 1952, Life Among the Savages is a moderately fictionalised memoir of the author's ...
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Life Among the Savages is a collection of comic essays by Shirley Jackson originally published in women’s magazines. Rather than a memoir Life Among the Savages reads as a series of episodes focusing on Jackson's chaotic family life: children squabbling, disagreements with other parents, daily chores, and family dinners. Jackson renders the ...
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Oct 1, 1997 · "Life Among The Savages" was the bestseller of 1952 and spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Shirley Jackson's semi-autobiographical book on raising her children in rural Vermont is brilliantly crafted, more than hysterical and, in places, famous.
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- Shirley Jackson
May 5, 2015 · The author is Shirley Jackson, usually associated with macabre stories and novels like "The Lottery" and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES is presented as fiction, but many of the incidents in this book seem to have been lifted out of real life in rural Vermont, with her four kids and husband, critic Stanley Edgar Hyman.
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Mar 14, 2022 · 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.
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 ...
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"Life Among The Savages" was the bestseller of 1952 and spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Shirley Jackson's semi-autobiographical book on raising her children in rural Vermont is brilliantly crafted, more than hysterical and, in places, famous.
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- Shirley Jackson
