The Man Who Loved Children - Brossura

Stead, Christina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784971480 ISBN 13: 9781784971489

Casa editrice: Apollo Library, 2016

Riassunto

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road... Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser of rage against her improvident husband. And, caught in the midst of it all, is Louisa, Sam's watchful eleven-year-old daughter.

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Recensione:

This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. 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. --Jonathan Franzen

L'autore:

Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years in London and New York, which she took as the settings for her major novels. She worked in banks and as a screenwriter while writing the acclaimed novels, The Man Who Loved Children, A House of All Nations, and Letty Fox: Her Luck. She returned to Australia in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of her life.

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• Editore: Apollo Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784971480
• ISBN 13: 9781784971489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528