Raising Demons - Shirley Jackson • BookLikes (ISBN:0445003227)

Raising Demons

by: Shirley Jackson (author)

4.00 5

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780445003224 (0445003227)

Publish date: 1957

Publisher: Popular

Pages no: 254

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Humor, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Comedy, Biography Memoir

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A Man With An Agenda rated it

8 years ago

http://Myles.booklikes.com A Man With An Agenda 4.0 Raising Demons

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After trying to put away some of her children's toys and finding nowhere to put them without displacing something else, our narrator (an idealized Shirley Jackson) realizes the family needs a new house. Just like 'Life Among the Savages', the surface of the book is wry and warm, but there are tremor...

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Murder by Death rated it

9 years ago

http://jenn.booklikes.com Murder by Death 3.5 Raising Demons

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I've never read any of Shirley Jackson's fiction, as psychological horror doesn't appeal to me in the least, but after reading this memoir of her life raising her four children in the 50's I have a strong suspicion of her source for inspiration. The book is very, very dated in that "I don't want m...

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Reflections rated it

16 years ago

http://Jaylia3.booklikes.com Reflections 4.0 Raising Demons

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More funny stories about child rearing in the 1950s by the author of The Lottery

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Kaethe rated it

25 years ago

http://Kaethe.booklikes.com Kaethe 5.0

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Jackson, writing about her four kids, husband, and small Vermont town, is hilarious. Although nothing in this book can top the disappearing pillow sequence in Life Among the Savages.

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