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New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

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Availability:In StockContributor:Colm ToibinPublish date:2013-06-04Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781451668568ISBN-10:1451668562UPC:9781451668568Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Literary FiguresSize:7.86 x 5.50 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC43CE1CFC
Novelist and critic Colm T?ib?n provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.

Colm T?ib?n--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind.

Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, T?ib?n examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers' most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781451668568ISBN-10:1451668562UPC:9781451668568Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Literary FiguresSize:7.86 x 5.50 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC43CE1CFC
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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