{"product_id":"mother-land-p-b-w2","title":"Paul Theroux: Mother Land: Paul Theroux [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ea fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theroux, Paul","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44215979475234,"sku":"9780141048789","price":11.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/theroux-paul-paul-theroux-mother-land-paul-theroux-2018-paperback-9780141048789-58413816676691.jpg?v=1726805480","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/mother-land-p-b-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}