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Great Granny Webster

Great Granny Webster

Blackwood, Caroline
Moore, Honor

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Series: New York Review Books Classics

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1590170075
ISBN13: 9781590170076
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 30 2002
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.06 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait (Literary Hub).

This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.

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