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Title: New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Subtitle: Writers and Their Families
Author: Colm Toibin
Narrator: Gerard Doyle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-12-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the best-selling and award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Empty Family offers a fascinating exploration of famous writers relationships to their families and their work.
From Jane Austens aunts to Tennessee Williamss mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literatures greatest works. In New Ways to Kill Your Mother, Colm Tóibín - celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the prestigious Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia - traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties.
Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, and J.M. Synge and his mother, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyles writing on his parents, Tóibín perceives an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheevers journals, Tóibín illuminates this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and his children. Educating an intellectual woman, Cheever remarked, is like letting a rattlesnake into the house.
Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a thought-provoking look at writers most influential bonds and a secret key to reading and enjoying their work.
Critic Reviews:
Tóibín is an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires. (The Evening Standard)
"A consistently revealing look at how writers relationships with their families have influenced their workDelicacy is one of Tóibíns great strengths as a novelist, and its here in abundance, too. Parallels are adroitly, teasingly drawn out, then knotted together with the lightest of touches. The result is a book that illuminates, startles and delights. (The Telegraph)
"Unfailingly warm and compassionate. (The Irish Times)
