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Mothers and Sons

By Colm Toibin

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| Hardcover | 9780771085314

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From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stContinue

From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.

A son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach near Dublin. A mother sings about treacherous love to a rapt crowd of musicians in a local pub. And in “A Long Winter,” Colm Tóibín’s finest piece of fiction to date, a man goes searching for his mother in the snow-covered Pyrenees.

Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful, and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.

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  • Keeping mum

    Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín 311pp, Picador, £12.99 The uneven but often moving new collection by the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín is less cosy than its title suggests. In three longer stories and six brief ones, there is strong sentiment, yes, but ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Strangers in the Family

    Colm Toibin’s first book of stories begins with a man on an upper balcony, looking out on a city that is a “great emptiness.” The image is a haunting one, if only because Toibin’s last, much acclaimed novel, “The Master,” was preoccupied with a man w ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 320 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0771085311
  • ISBN-13: 9780771085314
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • Pub date: Jan 02, 2007
  • Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
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