#1-2 Jacksons

Life Among the Savages / Raising Demons

4.15

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From review -This is not a review of Shirley Jackson's wonderful semi-autobiographical memoirs of her life with boisterous and at times eerily unsettling kids in Vermont -- LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES in 1952 followed by RAISING DEMONS in 1957.

Genres: NonfictionBiographyMemoirClassicsHumor

380 Pages

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