Life Among the Savages

from fefferbooks

Um.... I guess I've decided I'm not really a short story person. "Savages" has a bit of a narrative thread running through, which saves it from boring me to death like most short story collections, but I guess I really want my reading to have an arc from beginning to end, and not just little ones...

from Storm_Constantine

If you want real insight into the amazing life of Shirley Jackson - which is like something from one of her own novels - then read the biography 'Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson' by Judy Oppenheimer. The anecdotal autobiographies Ms Jackson penned, 'Life Among the Savages' and 'Raisin...

from andyray

thisis a what-the-kiddies-and-i-did- in-New Hmpshire-last-summer book. f ackson hadn'g saved it with her ironic houmor, it probably wojldn't have been printed./she wrote in in one lon gstream of newsprin t it seems, and let the editors do as they will. nfortuantely, the editors erfe too scaref of...

from KristySP

I browsed this book, rather than read it from start to finish. It was entertaining, elegantly written, but not profound or even very interesting. Jackson spent too much time poking fun at her own mothering skills and the crazy chaos of family life. It turned very predictable about a third in--whi...

from TadAD

I haven't read this book in 35 years and I thought that it held up well. As Jackson recounted the vicissitudes of parenting...all with a clear, self deprecating sense of her own questionable skills in that arena...I found the same blend of affection and humor I had remembered. Despite the differe...