From Publishers Weekly
Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical 1977 tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title character an impossibly dour and correct old woman is just one of the chilly, eccentric relatives that the teenage narrator has to endure. Other loved ones include a deranged grandmother and a cheerfully suicidal aunt. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize when first released. Blackwood, an Irish heiress and one-time wife of Lucian Freud and Robert Lowell, is the subject of the recent biography Dangerous Muse.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1977, Caroline Blackwood's semiautobiographical masterpiece shows us the chilliest of matriarchs, and the emotional havoc she presides over, as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. “Although it’s deceptively concise, it evokes the spirits of no less than four ages ... in exact and resonant prose.” — Philip Larkin
