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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Novelist and critic Colm Toibin explores the relationships of
writers with their families and their work in the brilliant,
nuanced, and wholly original "New Ways to Kill Your Mother."
Toibin--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his
provocative book reviews and essays--traces 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, Toibin 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 writers' most influential bonds
and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
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