| New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families Contributor(s): Toibin, Colm (Author) |
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ISBN: 1451668562 ISBN-13: 9781451668568 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 2012011959 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.5" W x 7.86" (0.82 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Toibin, Colm: - Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Blackwater Lightship; 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 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, a look at three nineteenth-century Irish authors. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York. |