New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

ISBN-13: 9780141041766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str.

Colm Toibin

Opis

In pieces that range from the importance of aunts (and the death of parents) in the English 19th century novel to the relationship between fathers and sons in the writing of James Baldwin, Colm Toibin illuminates the intimate connections between writers and their families."

Recenzje

A brilliant book...Tóibín is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths. New Statesman

O autorze

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.