The Man Who Loved Children
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Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children is a masterwork of psychological fiction that chronicles the devastating implosion of the Pollit family through the eyes of its intelligent and tormented daughter, Louisa. Set across Washington D.C. and Baltimore, the novel presents the tyrannical Sam Pollit — a grandiose, self-absorbed patriarch whose cheerful cruelty suffocates his household — locked in savage warfare with his bitter wife Henny, while their children struggle to survive the wreckage. Stead's prose is electrifying: torrential, darkly comic, and viscerally intimate, capturing the chaos of family life with a ferocity rarely matched in literature. First published in 1940, the novel was largely overlooked until Randall Jarrell's celebrated 1965 reintroduction argued its place among the great novels of the English language. A towering achievement of Australian literature, it remains a brutally honest and unforgettable portrait of power, love, and survival within the family unit.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children is a masterwork of psychological fiction that chronicles the devastating implosion of the Pollit family through the eyes of its intelligent and tormented daughter, Louisa. Set across Washington D.C. and Baltimore, the novel presents the tyrannical Sam Pollit — a grandiose, self-absorbed patriarch whose cheerful cruelty suffocates his household — locked in savage warfare with his bitter wife Henny, while their children struggle to survive the wreckage. Stead's prose is electrifying: torrential, darkly comic, and viscerally intimate, capturing the chaos of family life with a ferocity rarely matched in literature. First published in 1940, the novel was largely overlooked until Randall Jarrell's celebrated 1965 reintroduction argued its place among the great novels of the English language. A towering achievement of Australian literature, it remains a brutally honest and unforgettable portrait of power, love, and survival within the family unit.
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children is a masterwork of psychological fiction that chronicles the devastating implosion of the Pollit family through the eyes of its intelligent and tormented daughter, Louisa. Set across Washington D.C. and Baltimore, the novel presents the tyrannical Sam Pollit — a grandiose, self-absorbed patriarch whose cheerful cruelty suffocates his household — locked in savage warfare with his bitter wife Henny, while their children struggle to survive the wreckage. Stead's prose is electrifying: torrential, darkly comic, and viscerally intimate, capturing the chaos of family life with a ferocity rarely matched in literature. First published in 1940, the novel was largely overlooked until Randall Jarrell's celebrated 1965 reintroduction argued its place among the great novels of the English language. A towering achievement of Australian literature, it remains a brutally honest and unforgettable portrait of power, love, and survival within the family unit.
