Great Granny Webster by Blackwood, Caroline

Great Granny Webster

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of...
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Author: Caroline Blackwood
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Great Granny Webster by Blackwood, Caroline

Great Granny Webster

$24.33

Great Granny Webster

$24.33
Author: Caroline Blackwood
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub).

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.

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.

Author: Caroline Blackwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 06/30/2002
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.06w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781590170076


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 06/10/2002 pg. 43
Atlantic Monthly 07/01/2002 pg. 189
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2002

About the Author
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available asNYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women's anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.

Honor Moore's collections of poems are Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.

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