
Mother Land
by Paul Theroux
Title:
Mother Land
Author:
Paul Theroux
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
528 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780141048789
EAN:
9780141048789
Publication Date:
06/09/2018
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
500
Dimensions (mm):
179 x 177 x 30
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour'' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America''s most acclaimed writersEveryone 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. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.''Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose'' Guardian''Funny and wonderfully mean spirited'' Saturday Review''The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well'' Herald




















