Man Who Loved Children
$42.74
- Paperback
568 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2010
Summary
The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington during the 1930s, Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife. Their tempestuous marriage, aggravated by too little money, lies at the centre of Stead’s satirical and brilliantly observed novel about the relations between husbands and wives, and parents and children.
Sam, a scientist, uses words as weapons of attack and control on his children and is prone to illusions of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855548 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522855547 |
| Author: | Christina Stead |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 568 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2010 |
| Weight: | 604g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 199mm x 131mm |
| Series: | Miegunyah Modern Library |
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About The Author
Christina Stead
Christina Stead was born in Sydney in 1902, and died there in 1983. Most of her life was spent elsewhere: in London, Paris and other places in Europe, and in the United States. Her first book, The Salzburg Tales, was published in 1934, followed by twelve more works of fiction. In The Man Who Loved Children she drew on her own childhood in Sydney. She was the recipient of the inaugural Patrick White Literary Award in 1974.
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