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Christina Stead

The Man Who Loved Children

A Novel

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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, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), 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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4532-6525-3
  • EAN: 9781453265253
  • Produktnummer: 17908910
  • Verlag: Open Road Media
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 564 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'576 KB

Über den Autor


Christina Stead (1902-1983) was an Australian writer regarded as one of the twentieth century's master novelists. Stead spent most of her writing life in Europe and the United States, and her varied residences acted as the settings for a number of her novels. She is best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), which was praised by author Jonathan Franzen as a crazy, gorgeous family novel and one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Stead died in her native Australia in 1983.

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