Great Granny Webster

Fiction & Literature, Saga, Family Life, Humorous
Cover of the book Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, New York Review Books
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Author: Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 9781590175385
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: April 18, 2012
Imprint: NYRB Classics Language: English
Author: Caroline Blackwood
ISBN: 9781590175385
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: April 18, 2012
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Language: English

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.

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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.

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