The Man Who Loved Children

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453265253

<DIV><b>&ldquo;This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn&rsquo;t read the book so much as live it.&rdquo; &mdash;Jonathan Franzen, author of<i> Freedom</i></b><b><BR></b></div><DIV><i><BR>The Man Who Loved Children</i> is a brutally honest examination of domestic life and family. Sam and Henny Pollit have too much&mdash;too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and a chilling domestic power, Sam torments his children, bending and manipulating their seemingly limitless love to his overbearing advantage, while Henny looks on desperately, &#160;all too aware of the madness at its root. A favorite novel of Jonathan Franzen and Randall Jarrell, among many others, <i>The Man Who Loved Children</i> stands as Christina Stead&rsquo;s masterwork.</div>