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Mother Land

Mother Land

by PaulTheroux (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $5.79
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 528
 Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 01 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 0241293537
ISBN 13: 9780241293539
Book Overview: A richly detailed, darkly hilarious portrait of a family held together and torn apart by its scheming matriarch.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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.