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The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead · 2001 · 576 pages
With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children, is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.
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Jonathan Franzen
“Christina Stead’s masterpiece remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.”↗