Mother Land - by Paul Theroux (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its magnificently narcissistic matriarch<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." -- Stephen King, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> 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. <br><i> Mother Land</i> 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. <p/> "Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in <i>Mother Land</i>." -- <i>Vanity Fair</i> <p/><i>"An engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self . . . </i><i>Mother Land</i><i> is a bittersweet, brutally frank family saga that offers enough redemption to make the journey worth it." -- </i><i>Shelf Awareness</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include <i>The Lower River</i> and <i>The Mosquito Coast, </i> and his renowned travel books include <i>Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, </i>and <i>Deep South.</i>
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