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In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.
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- De: Leslie Meier
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband, and making her daughter’s angel costume for the church pageant weren’t enough things for Lucy Stone’s busy Christmas schedule, she’s also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn’t smell right.
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5 stars
- De Beatrice en 12-21-20
De: Leslie Meier
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
- De: Susan Wittig Albert
- Narrado por: Peggity Price
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Nominated for both the Agatha and Anthony awards, national best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert introduces a garden club of lady sleuths in Depression-era Alabama. The Darling Dahlias have just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees. But before long, these genteel ladies must unravel the mystery about what’s buried beneath one of these trees and the enigma of the dead body that soon turns up.
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Reminiscent of a more simple way of life
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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Homesick
- My Own Story
- De: Jean Fritz
- Narrado por: Jean Fritz
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. During this time, foreigners were becoming more and more unpopular, and evacuation at a moment’s notice was imminent. Although Jean appreciated the beauty of China - the mountains, the countryside, the sea - she knew she belonged in America and longed to make her home there.
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Great book!
- De R. SEVERSON en 10-19-18
De: Jean Fritz
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The Jew Store
- A Family Memoir
- De: Stella Suberman
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
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In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as "the Jew store". That's how Stella Suberman's father's store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee, was known locally. The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in that tiny town of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware, one barber shop, one beauty parlor, one blacksmith, and many Christian churches.
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Wonderful
- De Susan simpson en 09-04-21
De: Stella Suberman
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- De: Jean Kerr
- Narrado por: Marni Webb
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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Poor narration of smart, dry, funny essays
- De Buyseverythingonline en 04-30-16
De: Jean Kerr
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Homecoming
- De: Cynthia Voigt
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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On Saturday morning, 13-year-old Dicey Tillerman sits in the car at the shopping mall with her younger sister and two brothers. Momma had said, "You be good." Then she walked away. They wait for a day and a night, but Momma never comes back. Finally, Dicey decides the children should go to Bridgeport, Connecticut where Aunt Cilla lives. Maybe Momma is waiting for them there. But they don't have enough money to take the bus. Determined to keep the family together, Dicey sets off on foot with her siblings.
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The BEST audible book!
- De KP en 04-20-17
De: Cynthia Voigt
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On the Blue Comet
- De: Rosemary Wells
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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Oscar Ogilvie is living with his dad in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, in Cairo, Illinois, when world events change his life forever. The great stock market crash has rippled across the country, and the bank takes over their home - along with all their cherished model trains. Oscar’s dad is forced to head west in search of work, and Oscar must move in with his no-nonsense aunt Carmen. Only a mysterious drifter helps alleviate Oscar’s loneliness.
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Great story to listen to with your kids!!
- De Aaron en 03-27-23
De: Rosemary Wells
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After the Parade
- De: Lori Ostlund
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Sensitive, big-hearted, and achingly self-conscious, 40-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confines of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After 20 years under the Pygmalion-like direction of his older partner, Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to stop letting life happen to him and to take control of his own fate.
De: Lori Ostlund
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Elizabeth is a demure 23-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl - but four separate, self-destructive personalities.
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The narration changed my interpretation
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Literary history, mishandled.
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Incredible memoir about trauma and forgiveness
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Shirley Jackson
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An incredible writer; a courageous woman
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The Sundial
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When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.
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Stories From A Quirky Family
These eccentric stories of family life during the 1940's are centered in an old rambling house in very rural Vermont. This semi autobiographical collection of scattered memories loosely organized is funny, unusual and engaging. Jackson gives her children the freedom to express themselves and explore life in a very different world from the one in which we now live. I found a thread of subtle fear and spookiness running just under the surface of many of these stories. A hint I guess of the other, darker writing that Jackson is best known for. In the end this was an enjoyable look back in time.
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- 08-06-18
An Unexpected Comedy Gem
Believe it or not, I first read this in 5th grade from my Weekly Reader Book Selection. It is NOT a 5th-grade book. I was just a voracious reader. But I "got" the book. I enjoyed it from the "savage child" part, not the harried mother, but it was just as funny then as it is now.
This book has become a cult classic, in the Erma Bombeck mold, by one of the very greatest of writers. It was originally published in multiple short story form by one of the great short story writers of America. I say unexpected because the writer is Shirley Jackson - yes "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson, "We Have Always Lived In the Castle" Shirley Jackson - but this book is uproariously funny, with a preoccupied professor husband who chases bats through the living room with his rifle, a daughter who "magics" the refrigerator door to unstick it, a son who comes home every day telling stories of a non-existant classmate, and a fairy child, Sally.
There is no horror in it unless you are horrified when she robs her child's piggy bank to pay the furnace man in pennies.
I loved this book. The narrator is just right. I loved Shirley's telling of how she learned to drive, of how she walked into the house she would learn to love in Vermont with the great columns that no one else wanted because it was too old, of her adventures trying to take her imaginative children shopping, of her trying to deal with her hunting cats. I have to tell you, the story of the cats and chipmunk and the tall plant and the hunting rifle had me laughing out loud in the car. For sensitive souls, I'll spoil it by saying here the husband is a terrible shot.
This is a true life story so the four kids really existed, as of course did Shirley and the house in Vermont where people go to see it on a Jackson pilgrimage. It is set in the 50's so it is filled with chocolate pudding, stick shifts, kids playing cowboys (pardner) and ashtrays. I enjoyed this in 5th grade, I loved it when I read it when I was older, and when it came out in Audible I laughed my face off. And best of all, if you like it, there IS a sequel, and it is GOOD, Raising Demons. After all, Shirley Jackson IS considered one of the great American authors.
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- Tomsde
- 02-14-16
Before Erma Bombeck There Was Shirley Jackson
Known primarily for her chilling short story, "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson wrote a lot of other things. I think it's safe to say that she pioneered the satirical housewife memoir genre of literature. This is a humorous and yet compelling book about the ups and downs of being a housewife (while she was still working a s a writer) and the bitter-sweet transformation of children into adulthood. I loved this book and highly recommend it for someone who wants something funny and yet touching. Although a series of anecdotes, the book reads likes a novel and is linear--unlike more contemporary writers like David Sedaris--and I liked that a great deal about it. If you're looking for creepy, ironic stories, this isn't one of those--but this is excellent light reading fair for someone who wants to relax and listen to a good book. I am a Bombeck fan, and I think it's safe to say that if you are a Bombeck fan as well you can't go wrong with this book--although I don't know if Bombeck had read this book--it seems as if it was influential.
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- S. Willigrod
- 01-04-20
Delightful
Great fun to listen to. Wonderful narration (perfect accent) and great humor-I laughed out loud!!
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- escoocoo
- 02-04-23
So Much Fun!!
This book was written by Shirley Jackson about her often totally hysterical experiences with her children when they very young. I read the book years ago and loved it then. Listening to it now is a great treat as this narrator, Lesa Lockford, adds an additional layer of enjoyment to the overall experience.
This book (and a later book, RAISING DEMONS, also written about her children) offers us
an altogether different but very funny and delightful side that, having experienced her more sinister writing, you may be unaware of.
I love this book and heartily recommend it!! ☺️
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- Eliza
- 05-27-17
1950s domestic comedy is NOT Father Knows Best
Before Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) and the internet and the plague of mommy bloggers (no offense--most of them are wonderful), Shirley Jackson wrote about her family for various women's magazines, which actually paid money. If you only know Shirley Jackson from "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House," this book & its sequel, RAISING DEMONS, are a revelation of understated humor, satire, and even spookiness. My family used to laugh out loud reading these (okay, maybe we were a little weird, too). Narrator Lesa Lockford is appropriately deadpan and gets it.
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- Sheryl McCallister
- 01-05-22
Better than NO audio
Life Among the Savages is an old, dearly missed friend--the library sale copy I had for years having gone walkabout some time ago. And while I don't think this particular narrator truly GETS the humor in this particular group of short pieces, stitched together from Jackson's life as a 1950's mom.....on balance, having this is better than not having it. Although I'm hoping the sequel. will be better served by a different narrator.
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- Amydoodle
- 11-18-22
Not typical Shirley Jackson
Couldn't finish this. It's not funny. Kids are whiney brats. Nothing interesting ever happens.
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- Timothy F.
- 05-15-22
Diary
Reads like a diary of a young mother circa 1940. Very dated. I read it when I was younger. It did not age well.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-21
This is a boring book only made worse by listening
Boring characters and how many times can you say...."he said" then she said then said then she said.
One of the most dull books I have listened to.
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