Life among the Savages
by Jackson, Shirley
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) 'First published in 1954' to the copyright page and no mention of reprint. Internally clean pages and tight binding, sharp boards. . The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped (10s 6d), it has very light edge wear. Uncommon as a first printing and especially so in Superior condition..
Synopsis
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery , was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies , Cheaper by the Dozen , and anything Erma Bombeck ever wrote will find much to recognize in Shirley Jackson's home and neighborhood: children who won't behave, cars that won't start, furnaces that break down, a pugnacious corner bully, household help that never stays, and a patient, capable husband who remains lovingly oblivious to the many thousands of things mothers and wives accomplish every single day. "Our house," writes Jackson, "is old, noisy, and full. When we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books." Jackson's literary talents are in evidence everywhere, as is her trenchant, unsentimental wit. Yet there is no mistaking the happiness and love in these pages, which are crowded with the raucous voices of an extraordinary family living a wonderfully ordinary life. Continuously in print since 1948, Jackson's Haunting of Hill House has been bought by Dreamworks.
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- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014385
- Title
- Life among the Savages
- Author
- Jackson, Shirley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Life among the Savages, SHIRLEY JACKSON, FIRST EDITION.
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- Fiction;
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