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The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965

Hardcover First Edition

The Puzzlehead Girl
Christina Stead

Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1967

Her 11th book. Four novellas.

Letty Fox, Her Luck
Christina Stead

Harcourt Brace, 1946

This is a New York Girl growing up in the 1920's-30's. Author puts in all the realities of life at that time. Discovering sex, searching for a fufilling job, traveling to Europe, back to New York, dealing with the War, and finally true love.

Cotters England

1 review
Christina Stead

Random House, Inc., 1987

It was grim in post-war England.
Attracted to this book by raves from Patrick White and my favourite writer, Angela Carter, I was eagerly expecting some unholy mix of reckless epic and verbal fusillade. What I got was a stubbornly inedible stew of Arnold Bennett and DH Lawrence; the flat social realism of the former, detailing post-war working class/socialist/bohemian england; and the incoherent mysticism of the latter, ...

The Man Who Loved Children

13 reviews
Christina Stead

Avon Books, 1966

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman*
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead is a rare literary masterpiece. It tells the tale of the inner life of the Pollit family (Sam and Henny Pollit with 6 children). The novel is representative of Christina Stead's past. And Louie, the protagonist, is of course, a version of young Stead who grew up in Sydney. The Man Who Loved Children is a novel about power structures within ...

i'm dying laughing - the humorist by Christina (Holt Paperback)
Christina Stead

Holt/Owl, 1994

I'm Dying Laughing is the most obviously political of all Christina Stead's books but it is not a political novel in the manner of Koestler or Orwell. I'm Dying Laughing is concerned primarily with character and morality. 452 pages.

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The Love Dare
The Shack
Twilight (The Twilight Saga)
Failure to Appear
Loving Frank: A Novel

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