{"product_id":"life-among-the-savages-9780140267679","title":"Life Among the Savages","description":"\u003cp\u003eShirley 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 familys life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Dont Eat the Daisies  Cheaper by the Dozen  and anything Erma Bombeck ever wrote will find much to recognize in Shirley Jacksons home and neighborhood: children who wont behave  cars that wont 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.\" Jacksons 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  Jacksons Haunting of Hill House has been bought by Dreamworks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666033532981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0140267670","price":20.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140267679.jpg?v=1782416074","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/life-among-the-savages-9780140267679","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}