Mother Land
(Sprache: Englisch)
Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parents narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of this tale are unique, Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to legions of readers. And beyond offering the...
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Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parents narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of this tale are unique, Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to legions of readers. And beyond offering the shock and comfort of recognition, Mother Land presents for everyone an engrossing, heartbreaking, and often funny saga.
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A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch 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 the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. 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 this tale are unique, Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to legions of readers. And beyond offering the shock and comfort of recognition, Mother Land presents for everyone an engrossing, heartbreaking, and often funny saga of a vast family that bickers, colludes, connives, and ultimately overcomes the painful ties that bind them.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Theroux
- 2017, 528 Seiten, Masse: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-10: 0618839321
- ISBN-13: 9780618839322
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2017
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Englisch
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Praise for The Lower River (2012) "What we have finally is a relentless tale of suspense adroitly presented. Theroux's practiced hand in the matter of dialogue and scene-making is strongly in evidence. No one will nod off reading The Lower River ...It's a particular kind of frightening fun to watch evil flexing and spreading its leathery wings, and really feel it. The Lower River gives the reader just that." -- The New York Review of Books " The Lower River is riveting in its storytelling and provocative in its depiction of this African backwater, infusing both with undertones of slavery and cannibalism, savagery and disease. Theroux exposes paternalism in Hock's Peace Corps nostalgia, his 'sense of responsibility, almost a conceit of ownership.' That sense of responsibility, and Hock's modest contribution to the welfare of a people he was once genuinely fond of, has been replaced by a harsher mode of operation, run by coldhearted contractors living apart in impregnable compounds. 'I have to leave,' Hock pleads. 'I'm going home.' To which the village headman replies, with chilling menace, 'This is your home, father.'" -- New York Times Book Review Praise for A Dead Hand (2010) "No one writes with Theroux's head-on intensity and raptness."-- Pico Iyer "The real pleasure is Theroux's talent for rendering place and his irreverent comments on everything from the British royals to pop culture, aging, and yes, the venerable Mother Teresa."- Publishers Weekly
Praise for The Elephanta Suite (2008) "Thought-provoking . . . beautifully paced, by turns moving, sexy and disturbing." -- Washington Post Book World
"Theroux is at his best when he explores the less commonly described portions of India and when his characters act in ways that run contrary to stereotype." -- Indianapolis Star Praise for Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (2004) "Supremely moving. A master class in detail and sensuous evocation." - Financial Times "A decadent, engrossing collection. Whether
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evoking the bored sophistication of European aristocrats or the compulsive smuttiness of American teenagers, Theroux writes with an economy and grace which are hard to resist." - Mail on Sunday Praise for Hotel Honolulu (2001) "The persevering reader will be amply rewarded for unpacking his or her suitcase and staying a while -- and keeping a good ear pressed to the wall."-- The Washington Post "An adroitly crafted work of vigorous description, complex pathos, and ironic humor" -- Booklist , starred "Highly entertaining" -- Boston Herald "Theroux's cleverness is inexhaustible...extravagantly entertaining." -- New York Times
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