Man Who Loved Children, The
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Picador USA
Fr. 37.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
06.07.2001
Herausgeber
Leia VandersnickVerlag
Picador USASeitenzahl
574
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/3.4 cm
Gewicht
800 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-312-28044-4
"This crazy, gorgeous family novel" written at the end of the Great Depression "is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century" (Jonathan Franzen).
First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction, which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life.
In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much-too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband's behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the "ugly duckling" whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers.
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