{"product_id":"great-granny-webster-9781590170076","title":"Great Granny Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny\" novel that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Jonathan Raban, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBad Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590170076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.06w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/10\/2002 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/10\/2002\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Caroline Blackwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935617683637,"sku":"9781590170076","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8341e13e-7ce5-4617-90bb-1a622543c303.jpg?v=1688490652","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/great-granny-webster-9781590170076","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}