The Man Who Loved Children

The Man Who Loved ChildrenAustralian novelist Christina Stead's 1940 novel about the dysfunctional Pollitt family. All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser

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and the woman he still loves

When the aliens crash-land in the jungle

and that's where she intends to stay

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just as crucially

He'd be perfect for Jen apart from one minor detail: Tom lives in New York

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Narrated in two different wisecracking voices

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