The Man Who Loved Children

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Unabridged (Blackstone Audiobooks)

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19 hours, 26 minutes

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534 MB (16 files)

Published:

September 2007

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Summary

Quotes from the Critics

"One of the best novels of this century." - Newsweek

"Stead's masterwork...We shut the book feeling stunned." - Village Voice

"Washington in the Thirties was crammed with Sam and Henrietta Pollits, and Miss Stead, an Australian who for some years resided in the States with her husband, must, I imagine, have had great fun exploiting all the nonsense she was forced to listen to while she was among them. But since she is a writer of great ability, she has done more than that; she has immortalized them. I do hope that some of our literary explicators get to work on this book. It is an absolute treasure trove of meaning, piles upon meaning. Like many masterpieces, [this book] is not an entirely perfect book...But...slips hardly matter in so rich and lifelike a work. Even if you read no other book this year, you should read The Man Who Loved Children." - Saturday Review

"The single-minded intensity of its evocation of domestic terror gives it a greater artistic cohesion than Stead's subsequent work... And Stead permits herself a genuinely tragic resolution. A ravaged harridan, Henny, the focus of the novel, dies in a grand, outrageous gesture, an act of self-immolation that... is almost a conventional catharsis." - London Review of Books

"Christina Stead is one of those rare and wonderful creatures, a woman who writes fiction like a woman, not in imitation of a man... She brings to her work a profound woman's deep sensitivity to the nuances of yearning and suffering for which there are no words... It is her tragic and penetrating vision of the human condition that gives her best novels... their thrust toward greatness." - Christian Science Monitor

"THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN is one of the most truthful and terrifying horror stories ever written about family life." - Time