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Mother Land
Paul Theroux
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Description for Mother Land
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to ... Read more
'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141048789
SKU
V9780141048789
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
Reviews for Mother Land
Phenomenally strange
Observer
The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well
Herald
Funny and wonderfully mean spirited
Saturday Review
Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose
Guardian
Observer
The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well
Herald
Funny and wonderfully mean spirited
Saturday Review
Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose
Guardian