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The Man Who Loved Children
FromLit Century
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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, film critic K. Austin Collins and John Lingan (Homeplace, A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival) join host Catherine Nichols to talk about Christina Stead’s 1940 novel The Man Who Loved Children. They discuss the book's place in American and Australian literature, and its political analysis of the traditional family, as well as its unique use of language to show the characters' psychological warfare on one another.
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Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (67)
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