“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, The New York Times). First
published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965
thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included
in this ebook edition), 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. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by
Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a
Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan
Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I
carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and
comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
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ISBN
9781453265253
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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