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- Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín 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.
- About the Author: Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; 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; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism.
- 288 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Books & Reading
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Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín 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 Tóibín--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, Tóibín 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.Review Quotes
"[A] lively exploration of writers and their families...Fascinating."--Melissa Maerz "Entertainment Weekly"
"[Toibin possesses a] vast understanding of fiction and its uses, and a mind that processes novels and ideas like a rumbling supercomputer...Mr. Toibin is such an adept and morally serious close reader that his criticism becomes nearly as galvanizing as his fiction. There really aren't, it turns out, any new ways to kill your mother, at least not artistically. But all the old ways, in Mr. Toibin's telling, still work rather beautifully."--Dwight Garner "The New York Times"
"[Tóibín writes] shrewdly and passionately as both critic and novelist."--Fred Setterberg "Minneapolis Star Tribune"
"A typical Tóibín essay describes the arc of a writer's development and life, and uses the writer's own words to draw graceful conclusions about his temperament and biography...Tóibín's skill at glossing the lives of great writers is on display in his latest essay collection."--Andrew Martin "Bookforum"
"Like all fine critics, Tóibín inspires readers to go back to the work, and he brings a human aspect to the works of seemingly deracinated authors like Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges...It's a pleasure to watch Tóibín rove through 19th and 20th-century literary history."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Tóibín excels when discussing craft...[New Ways to Kill Your Mother is] chock-full of biographic detail that will interest ardent readers."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Tóibín finds an engaging multiplicity of detail. And his critical voice is as seductive as the widely varying voices in his novels."--Donna Rifkind "Barnes & Noble Review"
"Tóibín is a masterly novelist who is also a fine critic...powerful."--Mira Sethi "Wall Street Journal"
About the Author
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; 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; 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 was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.Dimensions (Overall): 7.86 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)
Weight: .82 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Books & Reading
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
Author: Colm Toibin
Language: English
Street Date: June 4, 2013
TCIN: 87233905
UPC: 9781451668568
Item Number (DPCI): 247-31-8209
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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