Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Among the Savages Author: Shirley Jackson Narrator: Kate Handford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 8, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 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 © Shirley Jackson 1953 (P) Penguin Audio 2020