| Great Granny Webster Revised Edition Contributor(s): Blackwood, Caroline (Author), Moore, Honor (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170075 ISBN-13: 9781590170076 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002002880 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.06" W x 8.02" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny" novel that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Jonathan Raban, author of Bad Land) 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. |