New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Empty Family offers a fascinating exploration of famous writersâ‚¬ relationships to their families and their work.

In a brilliant, nuanced and wholly original collection of essays, the novelist and critic Colm TÂ³ibÂn explores the relationships of writers to their families and their work.

From Jane Austenâ‚¬s aunts to Tennessee Williamsâ‚¬s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literatureâ‚¬s greatest works. TÂ³ibÂn, celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia, traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties in New Ways to Kill Your Mother. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, and J. M. Synge and his mother, TÂ³ibÂn examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyleâ‚¬s writing on his parents, TÂ³ibÂn perceives an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheeverâ‚¬s journals, TÂ³ibÂn illuminates this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and his children. â‚¬Å“Educating an intellectual woman,â‚¬Â Cheever remarked, â‚¬Å“is like letting a rattlesnake into the house.â‚¬Â 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.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-06-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451668551

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-06-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451668551

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

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