Book description
From Colm T ib n comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother,
a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.
In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection,
Colm T ib n 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...T ib n 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
Colm T ib n was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of
seven novels, including The Master which was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize , Brooklyn which won the Costa Novel Award and, most
recently, The Testament of Mary, and two volumes of short stories. His
non-fiction includes Lady Gregory's Toothbrush and Love in a Dark
Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almovodar. He is a contributing editor
at the London Review of Books and has been visiting writer at
Stanford, Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin and Manchester
University. He is currently Mellon Professor in the Humanities in the
Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six
novels, including
The Master
which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and
Brooklyn
which won the Costa Novel Award, and two volumes of short stories. His
non-fiction includes
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
and
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almovodar.
He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and has been
visiting writer at Stanford, Princeton, the University of Texas at
Austin and Manchester University. He is currently Mellon Professor in
the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature
at Columbia University.
