New ways to kill your mother : writers and their families / Colm Tóibín.
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TextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2012.Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: 345 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781451668551
- 9781451668568
- 1451668562
- 809 23
- PN466 .T57 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-330) and index.
Jane Austen, Henry James, and the death of the mother --
PART ONE: IRELAND. W.B. Yeats: new ways to kill your father ; Willie and George ; New ways to kill your mother: Synge and his family ; Beckett meets his afflicted mother ; Brian Moore: out of Ireland have I come, great hatred, little room ; Sebastian Barry's fatherland ; Roddy Doyle and Hugo Hamilton: the dialect of the tribe --
PART TWO: ELSEWHERE. Thomas Mann: new ways to spoil your children ; Borges: a father in his shadow ; Hart Crane: escape from home ; Tennessee Williams and the ghost of Rose ; John Cheever: new ways to make your family's life a misery ; Baldwin and "the American confusion" ; Baldwin and Obama: men without fathers.
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