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Book Synopsis''Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour'' Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America''s most acclaimed writersEveryone 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. 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 wTrade ReviewBrilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose * Guardian *Funny and wonderfully mean spirited * Saturday Review *The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well * Herald *Phenomenally strange * Observer *

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