Great Granny Webster: The wickedly funny rediscovered classic shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Autor Caroline Blackwood Introducere de John Banvilleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2026
*A New Yorker summer reading pick of 2026*
'Full of genuine black humour' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
'A darkly comic treat' CHRIS POWER, OBSERVER
'Wickedly amusing' SUNDAY TIMES
'A masterpiece . . . her humour is as wicked as it is mordant' JOHN BANVILLE
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In her gloomy mausoleum of a home, the terrifying matriarch Great Granny Webster spends her days sitting bolt upright in a Victorian chair, entirely alone except for her one-eyed maid - and her orphaned great-granddaughter, sent to stay for the sea air. She presides over three generations of ill-fated women, and a twisted family history which spools back through hedonistic 20s London to a crumbling aristocratic pile where two children are kept silently hidden in a distant wing.
This macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best.
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'Idiosyncratic, dark and extremely funny' LUCY SCHOLES
'A unique literary experience' PHILIP LARKIN
'Gloriously wicked' THE TIMES
'As gripping as a whodunit' TLS
'Shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny, Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's best book' JONATHAN RABAN
'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' ARAMINTA HALL
'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' VIRGINIA FEITO
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349019062
ISBN-10: 0349019061
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349019061
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
In her gloomy mausoleum of a home, the terrifying matriarch Great Granny Webster spends her days sitting bolt upright in a Victorian chair, entirely alone except for her one-eyed maid - and her orphaned great-granddaughter, sent to stay for the sea air. She presides over three generations of ill-fated women, and a twisted family history which spools back through hedonistic 20s London to a crumbling aristocratic pile where two children are kept silently hidden in a distant wing.
This macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best.
'Dark and funny and purring with feline malice' John Banville
'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' Araminta Hall
'Shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny, Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's best book' Jonathan Raban
Gloriously wicked . . . Akin to gleaning family gossip from a superlatively interesting dinner party guest. . . Taut, entertaining and quite brutal
This macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best.
'Dark and funny and purring with feline malice' John Banville
'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' Araminta Hall
'Shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny, Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's best book' Jonathan Raban
Gloriously wicked . . . Akin to gleaning family gossip from a superlatively interesting dinner party guest. . . Taut, entertaining and quite brutal
Notă biografică
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available asNYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women’s anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.
Honor Moore’s collections of poems are Red Shoes, Darling,and Memoir. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.
Honor Moore’s collections of poems are Red Shoes, Darling,and Memoir. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.