The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road... Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser of rage against her improvident husband. And, caught in the midst of it all, is Louisa, Sam's watchful eleven-year-old daughter.

This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth centuryI carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn't read the book so much as live it -- Jonathan Franzen
The most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read * Guardian *
Offers a singular and uncompromising vision of a family in freewill and is a world of serious moral intent * BookWitty *

Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Sydney but lived for most of her life outside Australia. THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN has been hailed as a masterpiece by Randall Jarrell, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley and many other writers.

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ISBN 13	9781784971489
ISBN 10	1784971480
Title	The Man Who Loved Children
Author	Christina Stead
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2016-04-07
Number of pages	528
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