Mother Land by Paul Theroux
A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch 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. 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 *
Phenomenally strange * Observer *
Funny and wonderfully mean spirited * Saturday Review *
The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well * Herald *
Phenomenally strange * Observer *
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241144985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241144981 |
| Title | Mother Land |
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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