Mother Land
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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.
Autorentext
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.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09780241293539
- Sprache Englisch
- Titel Mother Land
- ISBN 978-0-241-29353-9
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- EAN 9780241293539
- Jahr 2017
- Größe H34mm x B233mm x T154mm
- Autor Paul Theroux
- Genre Romane & Erzählungen
- Anzahl Seiten 528
- Herausgeber Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Gewicht 592g