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Life Among The Savages
by Shirley Jackson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Signed by Author. Signed and inscribed by Shirley Jackson on front end page. Additionally signed and inscribed by Laurie - Shirley Jackson's son. First edition, first printing, with no indication of a later printing on copyright page. Published by Farrar, Straus, and Young in 1953. Hardcover in jacket, price intact on jacket flap. Jacket is splitting along the folds and has some edge wear. Toning to jacket spine and some tape ghosts to the jacket verso. Text is clean and unmarked. End pages are a bit toned. Owner bookplate to front pastedown. Binding strong. Very good book in a fragile jacket. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bookman & The Lady
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230807002
- Title
- Life Among The Savages
- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Young
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8x5x1
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
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