Life Among the Savages
Cover of the first edition (published by Farrar, Straus and Young) | |
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
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Release number | 1st in series |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Young (1953), Penguin Books (2015) |
Publication date | June 1953 |
| Pages | 241 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-312804-5 (2015 edition) |
| Followed by | Raising Demons |
Life Among the Savages is a 1953 memoir by American writer Shirley Jackson. The book contains fictionalized stories based on Jackson's own life with her husband and four children. Many of these stories were originally published in women's magazines. Jackson edited these short stories into a book that chronicles a family and their experience living in a small town in Vermont. Life Among the Savages received positive reviews applauding the hilarious description of domestic life.
Life Among the Savages was originally published by Farrar, Straus and Young in 1953. The book was reissued by Penguin Books in 2015.