{"product_id":"9780141048789","title":"Mother Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Theroux, Paul \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/09\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 528 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141048789,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writersEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' Guardian'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' Herald\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697676714028,"sku":"9780141048789","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141048789.jpg?v=1722598786","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780141048789","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}