LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES

Name: LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES
Brand: JACKSON SHIRLEY
SKU: 9780241387801
Price: 61.01 PLN
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A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The LotterySometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own childrenAs 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.Jacksons 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 ReviewComic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath Guardian

Brand JACKSON SHIRLEY

Reference 9780241387801

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Język: PL
Ilość stron: 232
Data premiery: 2019-08-01
Rodzaj okładki: MIĘKKA
Termin realizacji: 72

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