(The destructive hatred a family can turn upon itself is the theme of this powerful work which has, in the words of Margaret Laurence, "a classic of its kind.' Set in the stark, confining atmosphere of a Newfoundland mill town, this semi-autobiographical novel tells of the Stone family-caught in relentless poverty and tyrannized by Saul Stone, an illiterate man whose primitive fury finds its target in his own wife and children.

A brilliant portrayal of existence bereft of tenderness, House of Hate is a tale of human ordeal and of an anguished striving for love in the midst of bitterness.

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