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3684657Life Among the Savageshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/life-among-the-savages-9780241387818/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2484818/42189b43-fa85-4284-8bf8-d25b3669b4f9.jpg?v=638384038653200000203231MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A darkly funny account of family life from the author of <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> and <em>The Lottery</em></strong></p><p><em>Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children</em></p><p>As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In <em>Life Among the Savages</em>, 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.</p><p>Jacksons family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath <em>Guardian</em></p>...3620805Life Among the Savages203231https://www.gandhi.com.mx/life-among-the-savages-9780241387818/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2484818/42189b43-fa85-4284-8bf8-d25b3669b4f9.jpg?v=638384038653200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20199780241387818_W3siaWQiOiIwYWU4NjA3ZC04NDM4LTQzMmMtYmNmMi0yYTQyYWJlOWMxMDIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780241387818_<p><strong>A darkly funny account of family life from the author of <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> and <em>The Lottery</em></strong></p><p><em>Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children</em></p><p>As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In <em>Life Among the Savages</em>, 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.</p><p>Jacksons family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath <em>Guardian</em></p>(*_*)9780241387818_<p><strong>A darkly funny account of family life from the author of <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> and <em>The Lottery</em></strong></p><p><em>Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children</em></p><p>As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In <em>Life Among the Savages</em>, 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.</p><p>Jacksons family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath <em>Guardian</em></p>...9780241387818_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_745e887d-79f6-36b5-9cff-7377c785dad7_9780241387818;9780241387818_9780241387818Shirley JacksonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/penguinrandomhouseuk-epub-6dc14312-ce1c-49a3-8ef7-804478cddc8c.epub2019-08-01T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd