The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel

"This crazy, gorgeous family novel" written at the end of the Great Depression "is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century" (Jonathan Franzen).

First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction, which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life.

In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much...