{"product_id":"life-among-the-savages-shirley-jackson","title":"Life Among the Savages (Shirley Jackson)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA darkly funny account of family life from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lottery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Savages\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery'\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Road Through the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in the same year and was followed by \u003ci\u003eHangsaman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bird's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65888466174301,"sku":"K079425523","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7942552300001A.jpg?v=1789086552","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/life-among-the-savages-shirley-jackson","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}