Paul Theroux – Mother Land (EPUB)

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Paul Theroux – Mother Land (EPUB)
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Title: Mother Land
Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9781328664105
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Family & Friendship – Fiction, Black Comedy, Family Life – Fiction
“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…

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