{"product_id":"9780241387801","title":"Life among the Savages (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In Life Among the Savages, her caustically funny account of raising her children in a ramshackle house in Vermont, she deals with rats in the cellar, misbehaving imaginary friends, an oblivious husband and ever-encroaching domestic chaos, all described with wit, warmth and plenty of bite. 'Jackson's family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood' The New York Times Book Review'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52302792720695,"sku":"EB_LI0701_E25-06_KL","price":64.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780241387801-1_c1afa4c5-1fc4-4e60-88b1-7e0721361726.jpg?v=1790175064","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780241387801","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}