In the third title in the Bookmarked series, Paula Bomer discusses the effect on her life and work of The Man Who Loved Children, the 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. TIME magazine included the novel in its '100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005', and the novel has been championed as a classic by novelists Robert Stone, Angela Carter and Jonathan Franzen, who called it 'lyrical in the true sense, every observation and description bursting with feeling, meaning and subjectivity.'
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In the third title in the Bookmarked series, Paula Bomer discusses the effect on her life and work of The Man Who Loved Children, the 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. TIME magazine included the novel in its '100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005', and the novel has been championed as a classic by novelists Robert Stone, Angela Carter and Jonathan Franzen, who called it 'lyrical in the true sense, every observation and description bursting with feeling, meaning and subjectivity.'
