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MOTHER LAND - PAUL THEROUX KARTONIERT (TB)

'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously
nasty sense of humour' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American
family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writersEveryone 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.'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose'
Guardian'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review'The family dynamic has been
rendered exceptionally well' Herald

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