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New Ways to Kill Your Mother- Writers and Their Families

✍ Scribed by Toibin, Colm

Book ID
107102115
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Tongue
en-US
Weight
252 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780771084423

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✦ Synopsis

In this fascinating, informative, and entertaining collection, internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Colm Toibin turns his attention to the intricacies of family relationships in literature and writing.

In pieces that range from the importance of aunts (and the death of parents) in the English nineteenth-century novel to the relationship between fathers and sons in the writing of James Baldwin and Barack Obama, Colm Toibin illuminates not only the intimate connections between writers and their families but also, with wit and rare tenderness, articulates the great joy of reading their work. In the piece on the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams , Toibin reveals an artist "alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish" and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, or Thomas Mann and his children, or J.M. Synge and his mother,...

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