Mother Land
$54.44
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2018
Summary
A blackly comic family saga from one of the great writers of his generation: welcome to the most dysfunctional family in America.
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 escape into adulthood.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141048789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141048786 |
| Author: | Paul Theroux |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose
Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose * Guardian *
Funny and wonderfully mean spirited * Saturday Review *
The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well * Herald *
Phenomenally strange * Observer *
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. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
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