Mother Land - Couverture souple

Theroux, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241293537 ISBN 13 : 9780241293539

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.”—Stephen King   “Theroux’s prose is suitably silky in its insinuations and vicious in its ability to claw.”—Boston Globe   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 100, 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, Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.

Revue de presse :

“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

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241293537
• ISBN 13: 9780241293539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528