Life Among The Savages
Back Cover Text:"...the funniest and most delightful book I have read in years and years." - ORVILLE PRESCOTT, New York Times
"A top flight family comedy... a wonderful book for everybody. Don't miss it." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES is the witty, warm and downright hilarious account of a city family transplanted to the country and of how they survived, the chaos, comedy and crises of day-to-day living.
Shirley Jackson is one of the foremost young writers today and her husband is a leading critic, but it is savages - four of them - who dominate their mother's wonderful book.
Whether she is describing Lawrence's hair-raising adventures in kindergarten, the day the baby ate the spider, or the dreaded semiannual mass attack on a department store to outfit the savages, Shirley Jackons writes with the humor and insight reserved only to those who have savored the joys - and distractions - of parenthood.
It is years since we have had as clever an account as this of the Hottentots inhabiting the American home." - BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB NEWS