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The Man Who Loved Children

The Man Who Loved Children

Stead, Christina
Jarrell, Randall

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0312280440
ISBN13: 9780312280444
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jul 6 2001
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

This crazy, gorgeous family novel written at the end of the Great Depression is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century (Jonathan Franzen).

First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction, which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life.

In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much--too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband's behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the ugly duckling whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers.

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