![]() ![]() They misbehave only up to the point that it serves the comic anecdote.īut these are not, somehow, cheerful books. The children are precocious: one oft-cited passage describes Jackson’s son Laurie’s elaborate tales of “Charlie”, a classmate who does not exist. The setting is bucolic: a ramshackle house in the woods of Vermont, which we are told over and over again has four tall white pillars, though these are presented as absurdities rather than crowning decorations. ![]() They have all the markers of the sort of peacock-parenting that is now the scourge of your social media feeds. Originally published in the 1950s, at the height of conformist fetishization of the home and particularly of the woman who keeps it, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons are packaged as light fare. ![]()
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