Life Among the Savages

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Estudió en la Universidad de Syracuse. En 1948 aparecieron su primera novela, The Road Through the Wall, y el cuento La lotería , ya convertido en un clásico. En 1962 publicó Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, considerada por la revista Time como una de las diez mejores novelas de ese año.