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    "annotation": "<P>\n<p><b>'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses</b> <b>a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King</b><br><b></b><br><b>A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers</b></p><p>Everyone 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' Guardian</p><p>'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review</p><p>'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' Herald</p></P>",
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