Great Granny Webster
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Book Overview
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub). This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1590170075
ISBN13:9781590170076
Release Date:June 2002
Publisher:New York Review of Books
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"
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3 ratings
Truly good.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
It certainly didn't hurt to have your husband, Robert Lowell, peaking over your shoulder. A very fine book.
"A behind-the-scenes look at a wacky aristocratic family"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Blackwood was the heir to the Guinness beer fortune, and she was quite the bohemian rebelling against her wealthy family. Great Granny Webster is a partly autobiographical novel and a behind-the-scenes look at a great, wacky aristocratic family.
Dark, grimly funny novella
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Great Granny Webster is a short, pointed look at three generations of eccentric, damaged women from the point of view of their descendant, a young girl. The portraits of the rigid, determinedly unhappy Great Granny Webster, her flighty, insane daughter, and the outwardly frivolous but suicidal granddaughter are classic black comedy, amusing and depressing together. The women dominate the story; the men are either dead (the narrator's father), absent (her brother), or ineffectual (her grandfather). The book is short, but the characters are affecting and vividly portrayed.
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