New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
Jun 2012 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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Novelist and critic Colm TĂłibĂn provides âa fascinating exploration of writers and their familiesâ (Entertainment Weekly) and âan excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desiresâ (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.
Colm TĂłibĂnâcelebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essaysâtraces 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, TĂłibĂn 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 writersâ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
Colm TĂłibĂnâcelebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essaysâtraces 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, TĂłibĂn 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 writersâ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
Novelist and critic Colm TĂłibĂn provides âa fascinating exploration of writers and their familiesâ (Entertainment Weekly) and âan excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desiresâ (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writer...
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Tory Lawson
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November 4, 2025
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Christian Saavedra
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December 6, 2016
Amazing book
About the author
Colm TĂłibĂn is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprahâs 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, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three 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 2022â2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
Colm TĂłibĂn is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprahâs 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, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as ...
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