{"product_id":"mother-land","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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393858806142,"sku":"NW9780141048789","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141048789.jpg?v=1778686601","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/mother-land","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}