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Great Granny Webster
Blackwood, Caroline2002
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Two years after World War II the author is sent to convalesce at the house of her Great Granny Webster. Caroline Blackwood's observations on the tyrannical, humourless granny and her tyrannized maid make for a funny yet frightening read. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . .macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub).This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives. Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.
Main title:
Great Granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood ; introduction by Honor Moore.
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Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2002, c1977.
Collation:
108 p. ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1977.
ISBN:
9781590170076
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
3132446