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Life Among the Savages

by Shirley Jackson

Paperback, 241 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $15 |

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Author: Shirley Jackson

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The author offers a humorous account of her experiences as she, her husband, and their four young children moved from an apartment in the city to a big house in rural Vermont

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