Mother Land
Author: Theroux, Paul
ISBN: 9780141048789
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 528
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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.
ISBN: 9780141048789
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 528
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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.
