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The Man Who Loved Children : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Man Who Loved Children
''The Man Who Loved Children'' is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. ''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005''.〔(The Man Who Loved Children - ALL-TIME 100 Novels - TIME )〕 The novel has been championed by novelists Robert Stone, Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter. Carter believed Stead's other novels ''Cotters England''; ''A Little Tea, A Little Chat''; and ''For Love Alone'' to be as good, if not better than ''The Man Who Loved Children''. ==Plot introduction== The novel tells the story of a highly dysfunctional family, the Pollits. The naive egoism of the eponymous Sam Pollit overwhelms his family, especially his wife Henny and eldest daughter Louie. The family is not wealthy, a situation exacerbated by Sam's idealism, Henny's accumulated debts, and the terrible rift between the couple. Stead details the parents' marital battles and the various accounts of the blended family's affections and alliances. The character Sam is largely based on Stead's own father, marine biologist David Stead. ''The Man Who Loved Children'' was originally set in Sydney but the setting was altered to suit an American audience, to Washington, D.C., somewhat unconvincingly due to linguistic nuances. Unsparing and penetrating, Stead reveals, among other things, the danger of unchecked sentimentality in relationships and in political thought.
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