Man Who Loved Children Author:Christina Stead With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. 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, the rel... more »ations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children, is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.« less
This is quite the argument for our more liberal divorce laws. What a family! Well written, a really awful character. After I read it, I learned that it is very autobiographical, but the author lived in Australia. Her character was Louie. Yikes!