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    Raising Demons

    Written by Shirley Jackson

    Narrated by Lesa Lockford

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    About this audiobook

    In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the seams of their first house, Jackson’s clan moves into a larger home. Of course, the chaos simply moves with them. A confrontation with the IRS, Little League, trumpet lessons, and enough clutter to bury her alive - Jackson spins them all into an indelible reminder that every bit as thrilling as a murderous family in a haunted house is a happy family in a new home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781633799547
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    Raising Demons
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    Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson was an American author who is best known for the short story “The Lottery” and the horror novel The Haunting of Hill House. Married to the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, Jackson cultivated a literary lifestyle, writing full time and developing relationships with literary colleagues. A gifted writer, Jackson frequently took inspiration from the events and locales of rural Vermont, where she and her family resided, and from the exploits of her children, which were chronicled in Life Among the Savages. Jackson died of heart failure in 1965.

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    • 4/5
      The second of Shirley Jackson's two humorous memoirs about keeping house and raising four kids during the 1950s, this follows directly on from the first volume, Life Among the Savages. I think I liked the first one a bit better, but both are entertaining. Although, man... While the tone here is always light and fluffy, with all Jackson's trials and tribulations and moments of anger or frustration at her difficult and thankless role played for laughs (and often slightly self-deprecating laughs), I found it impossible to read this and not think of the fact that this is the same Shirley Jackson who wrote all those stories about quietly desperate housewives slowly collapsing under the weight of society's expectations. So, while this amused me, I have to say, its main effect on me was to make me feel very, very good about my own life choices, which include not having children and not living in the 1950s.
    • 3/5
      This was okay - I'm disappointed that it's the last new-to-me full-length Shirley Jackson book I'll ever read! This is her second memoir of her life keeping a household together as a woman in the 50s; her writing is hilarious and dry and really does give a good picture of what a middle-class "professor's wife" would have experienced...but I feel like I got that and more out of her first memoir, Life Among Savages, and didn't really need the second. The section where she reminisces about her brief yet super intense childhood obsession with making clothespin dolls was worth the whole book, though, so I don't regret reading it!
    • 4/5
      I have sent this book to you. Your tracking number is 9549 0111 2701 5204 4544 04.Enjoy!
    • 4/5
      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 my husband to find out I just spend $13 at the dress shop this month." kind of way, but given the vogue of shows like Mad Men this is actually a great time to read it. The writing is terse but hilarious; the scene with the mice and the cats and the dogs had me laughing out loud. My main complaint about the book is its structure. At 300 pages one might be fooled into thinking it's a light breezy read. It's not, at least it wasn't for me. There are only 4 chapters in the entire book and the typeface was smaller than average making it a deceptively meaty read, even while it was entertaining.
    • 5/5
      Shirley Jackson's Raising Demons is just as delightful and entertaining as her previous memoir, Life Among the Savages. Picking up not long after the first one ends, Raising Demons introduces young Barry as a toddler, and chronicles the family's move to a new house, growing children, magic, baseball games, and endless parade of house repairs, animals, and picking up after people, and the general chaos that inevitably follows a family of six. The blurb on the front of the book proclaims, "It's a very pleasant form of pandemonium and hugely entertaining," and I'm inclined to agree. The insanity of raising a sizable family is a joy, and Jackson's slight-frazzled voice sweeps the reader along for the ride.
    • 5/5
      Ah, the joys and miseries of being a mother and wife, not particularly in that order. Shirley Jackson weaves her magic again - stronger this time - painting a picture of a chaotic household with memorable characters that revolve around the funny, interesting, insightful personality that is the author herself.

      This reads almost like a sitcom, something that I'd love to watch on TV. There's a sense of nostalgia, a strong feeling of time gone away, of children growing up, of old sticky family photos in that dusty album kept away in a forgotten corner of the house. The charm overflows and keeps getting better as the book nears the end.

      It was painful to reach the end, knowing I'd never meet Jackson's family again, that this is our final goodbye. And what a goodbye it is! I hope Shirley's having a grand time raising hell wherever she is in the afterlife.
    • 4/5
      Due for a re-read of this hilarious classic.
    • 3/5
      I didn't enjoy this the way I enjoyed Life Among the Savages. The stories struck me as imitations of the previous book. I'm sure that the publishers were looking for that, a repeat of the success, but the results seemed a bit pallid in comparison and the humor a bit forced. Also, there was a dark edge occasionally, as if her other writing or her growing personal problems were bleeding into this book. I don't see myself picking up this one in 30 years for a re-read.