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Great Granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood ; introduction by Honor Moore.
Van Pelt Library PR6052.L3423 G74 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackwood, Caroline.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Grandparent and child--Fiction.
- Grandparent and child.
- Hove (England)--Fiction.
- Hove (England).
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 108 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. 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 of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
- ISBN:
- 1590170075
- OCLC:
- 49225378
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