Mother land
Theroux, Paul2017
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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.
Main title:
Mother land / Paul Theroux.
Author:
Imprint:
UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2017.UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2017.
Collation:
509 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN:
9780241144985 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1823541