Used book – Vipers' Tangle, Hervé Bazin

Viper in the Fist is the merciless battle waged by Jean Rezeau, known as Brasse-Bouillon, and his brothers against their hateful mother, whom they nicknamed Folcoche. A cry of hatred and revolt, this largely autobiographical novel, Hervé Bazin's first, brought him fame and immediately placed him among the most widely read contemporary writers.