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For some reason, I've been reading about Shirley Jackson recently, so I re-read The Lottery and then bought (used, at Amazon) her biography, which looks very intriguing. All told, with Life Among The Savages Jason Quever’s Papercuts has crafted a near-perfect collection of contemporary baroque pop ruminations on the modern condition, one of isolation, sadness and an affectation that requires us to present an outward façade not …
Shirley Jackson is most known for writing what the critics often call the best short story of all time and the best haunted house novel of all time.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Here's a very funny novel about a mommy, a daddy, a powerhouse-full of children and assorted pets, who give up Manhattan's crowded post-World War II real estate market for the dubious comforts of life in snowy Vermont. A time when women sat there smoking and drinking coffee on the day they were headed into the hospital to give birth. Shirley Jackson's Simultaneously laugh out loud funny and so dated that it made me cringe, this is a delightful good time if you can get past the fact that Jackson's husband is completely unable to do any sort of domestic task or discipline his children Shirley Jackson writes, in her brilliant deadpan humour, a slice-of-life memoir of raising children. Today she is lesser known as a frequent magazine presence from the 1940s to her death in 1965, offering up humorous domestic scenes from her life in Vermont. "Right up front I will admit to never having read a Shirley Jackson novel. Many years later, my mother described her - and so many women of her generation - as (literally) eating her pain.I just loved this! A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. I was reading The Haunting of Hill House when I discovered that Author Shirley Jackson also wrote humorous short stories about her life in Vermont raising three children in the 40's and 50's. The author is Shirley Jackson, usually associated with macabre stories and novels like "The Lottery" and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE.
I listened to the audio version, narrated by Lesa Lockford, and I thought she was excellent.This is an hilarious autobiographical account of Shirley Jackson and her husband, raising 2, (then 3, then 4) children in a small Vermont town. She was married to a brilliant man, but managed to keep his gargantuan ego in check with her razor-sharp wit. "Writer," says Shirley Jackson. She was a crazy cat lady and amateur witch.
A time when you put your daughter in an organdy party dress, white frilled socks, and white gloves to go to a birthday party, and were yourself embarrassed to realize that you were wearing jeans when you met the birthday girl's mI read this years ago, either before I had kids, or when I just had the one.
I had always thought of Shirley Jackson as a writer of horror/paranormal type books and stories. 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. Shirley Jackson proves herself an historic talent here more than ever.
And the all-female college hubby teaches at just happens to be Bennington. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The author is Shirley Jackson, usually associated with macabre stories and novels like "The Lottery" and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. The stories were originally printed in popular magazines and collected in two books, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons.
Funny and sweet.
And I dont have kids.
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A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. One of the funniest books I have read. I had planned on reading Shirley Jackson for years and finally picked this one up. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations She hits the right note on only a few situations, such as the last moments of her second pregnancy. Jackson gives her characters heart and empathy...well, except for Laurie...;).
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.
Many of the stories in this book you have probably read if you have read any of her short stories.
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When she writes about everyone in the family being sick and moving from bed to bed, room to room, it is hysterical.
A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years.
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