· Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical 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.3/5(1). · 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 4/5(5). · 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 www.doorway.ru: New York Review Books.
Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical 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. Great Granny Webster was published in and drew on Blackwood's own miserable childhood, depicting a strict and loveless old woman's destructive impact on her www.doorway.ru was short-listed for the Booker Prize losing out to Staying On by Paul Scott.. Great Granny Webster is a deceptively short book which is in some ways a series of character studies, portraying four generations of. Great Granny Webster. Author:Blackwood, Caroline. Book Binding:Paperback. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. Book Condition:GOOD. World of Books USA was founded in
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. Great Granny Webster (), thought to be autobiographical and considered Blackwood's masterpiece, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It's also included in the New York Review Books classics series, so I bought the book thinking it must be good. Unfortunately, Great Granny Webster was not all that I had hoped the novel would be. Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical 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.
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