Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940) torrent

Category: General Fiction, Suspense
Language: EnglishKeywords: Dysfunctional Family Drama
Written by The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
Read by C.M. Hebert
Format: M4B
The Man Who Loved Children
By: Christina Stead
Narrated by: C. M. Hebert
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-27-06
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publisher’s summary
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, this work is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.
©1996 Christina Stead (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks
Critic reviews
“This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.” (Jonathan Franzen)
“One of the best novels of this [the 20th] century.” (Walter Clemons, Newsweek)
“This minute examination of the life of a lethally dysfunctional family is told in a gush of extravagant language such is not heard in the age of television. All but the youngest characters hold forth like orators in an Irish pub. It’s the sort of thing one either loves or hates. Those who love it will find this recording by C.M. Herbert completely satisfactory. She takes the sprawling twenty-one-hour text in stride, giving every word its proper attention and showing great sensitivity to the emotional content (usually high) of every line of dialogue. She doesn’t vary the sound of her voice greatly but, nonetheless, gives each character a distinctive tone.” (AudioFile)


The Man Who Loved Children
By: Christina Stead
Narrated by: C. M. Hebert
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-27-06
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s summary

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, this work is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.

©1996 Christina Stead (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic reviews

“This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.” (Jonathan Franzen)

“One of the best novels of this [the 20th] century.” (Walter Clemons, Newsweek)

“This minute examination of the life of a lethally dysfunctional family is told in a gush of extravagant language such is not heard in the age of television. All but the youngest characters hold forth like orators in an Irish pub. It’s the sort of thing one either loves or hates. Those who love it will find this recording by C.M. Herbert completely satisfactory. She takes the sprawling twenty-one-hour text in stride, giving every word its proper attention and showing great sensitivity to the emotional content (usually high) of every line of dialogue. She doesn’t vary the sound of her voice greatly but, nonetheless, gives each character a distinctive tone.” (AudioFile)