Imprint: Penguin
Published: 07/03/2013
ISBN: 9780141041766
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 326g
RRP: £12.99
From Colm Tóibín comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.
In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Tóibín not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and wit, the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly responding to his own father's literary efforts; Thomas Mann ruining his children's prospects; Tennessee Williams haunted by his sister's mental illness; and John Cheever being beastly to his wife.
Praise for New Ways to Kill Your Mother:
'A brilliant book...Tóibín is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths' Robert Hanks, New Statesman
'A penetrating and often very funny inquiry into the fraught complicity between parent and child, brother and sister' Daily Telegraph
'Insightful and compassionate, assured and knowledgeable, never less than fascinating. An impressive, fine and engaging collection' Independent on Sunday
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 07/03/2013
ISBN: 9780141041766
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 326g
RRP: £12.99
A brilliant book...Tóibín is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths.
Insightful and compassionate, assured and knowledgeable, never less than fascinating. An impressive, fine and engaging collection
These are foxy essays. Tóibín knows lots of things, and his characteristic approach is to sneak up on things steadily. Tóibín, with great subtlety and sometimes with splendid impudence, is interested here in what you might call the higher gossip
Tóibín's engaged in white heat. A masterly writer, working at the full stretch of his powers
A consistently revealing look at how writers' relationships have influenced their work
'Calm and pure, a tone that's unfailingly warm and compassionate...Colm Tóibín's prose meets Orwell's standard: it's like a pane of clear glass
Tóibín is a particularly compelling guide to fellow novelists. A wide-ranging and enlightening study of the potentially stifling family and the individual spirit of the writer
He writes in muscular prose with a keen eye for detail
Penetrating and often very funny...Tóibín is a master
Colm Tóibín is an exceptionally fine writer...He puts his natural empathy to good use in these essays...outstanding