{"product_id":"mother-land-1","title":"Mother Land","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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32083239403603,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141048789.jpg?v=1777060845","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mother-land-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}