The Man Who Loved Children Author:Christina Stead Time magazine said: One of the most truthful and terrifying horror stories ever written about family life....Every page is written with battering intensity in this big black diamond of a book." — I say, it will draw you; it will repel you; it will scare you. Her strength is that she is so very very incisive looking into the hearts of all members ... more »of the family. Her fatal weakness is that she has no mercy; no compassion.« 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!