Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. In a little masterpiece of the macabre, seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...survivor who survives because she does not try to justify life, a pitiable figure untainted by self-pity, Enrica has a kind of stoic charm. Not for export to the U.S., of course. The sociologists would ply her with group therapy. In a few weeks she would be blaming Dad for rejecting her, and tearfully reciting her laments to peer-group pals whose lives can be blighted by a back-seat rebuff on a blind date...
...fact is-not that facts, as such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick") and no two of the children had the same father. "Dad" is a racecourse spiv named Charlie Hook who has given them nothing but his name. When he tells them that mother "was an 'ore-a bleeding tart," he blasphemes the religion of the Sacred Mother. He had to be destroyed...