Used book – Vipers' Tangle, Hervé Bazin

Viper in the Fist is the ruthless battle waged by Jean Rezeau, known as Brasse Bouillon, and his brothers against their mother, an odious woman they nicknamed Folcoche. A cry of hatred and revolt, this largely autobiographical novel, Hervé Bazin's first, brought him fame and immediately ranked him among the most widely read writers of the 20th century.