EAN: 9781328915825

MOTHER LAND - PAUL THEROUX KARTONIERT (TB)

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

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9781328915825

Produktinformationen zur 9781328915825