Mother Land - Brossura

Theroux, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1328915824 ISBN 13: 9781328915825

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2018

Riassunto

“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.” — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
 
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of one hundred, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
                  Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent’s narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.
 
“Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land.” — Vanity Fair
 
“An engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self . . . Mother Land is a bittersweet, brutally frank family saga that offers enough redemption to make the journey worth it.” — Shelf Awareness

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“Reading Mother Land is like watching a slow-motion car crash...Theroux ends up assassinating all of his characters, but I still enjoyed the play.” —Stephen King, New York Times Book Review “Theroux’s prose is suitably silky in its insinuations and vicious in its ability to claw... Theroux, fusing anguish and glee as he picks at the same raw scabs for 500-plus pages, evokes something truly memorable: a realm many come from, to which some of us have no desire to return.” —The Boston Globe   “Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land.” —Vanity Fair

L'autore

PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, and Deep South.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1328915824
• ISBN 13: 9781328915825
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 509