{"product_id":"mother-land","title":"Mother Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Mother Land\" is a darkly funny and poignant portrait of a modern family, depicting the bickering, conspiracies, and drive to overcome the painful ties that bind. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 528 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 06 September 2018\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDownright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour, Stephen King. A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch -- by one of America's most acclaimed writers. Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hardworking, 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. Welcome 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. Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose. Guardian. Funny and wonderfully mean-spirited. Saturday Review. The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well. Herald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 388g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 179 x 177 x 30 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780141048789\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Theroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44100912611578,"sku":"9780141048789","price":13.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1785be3745f8dd784baf2fe81c0daefe.jpg?v=1629347854","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/mother-land","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}