Mothers and Sons [electronic resource]

Colm Toibin2015

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"ToÌibin is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity... These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted" Literary Review Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered. A son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach near Dublin. In the course of this one night his grief and desire for raw feeling combine with exquisite intensity. A mother sings about treacherous love to a rapt crowd of musicians in a local pub. Her unacknowledged son meets her eyes, unable to approach her. And in A Long Winter, Colm ToÌibin's finest piece of fiction to date, a son goes searching for his mother in the snow-covered Pyrenees. Psychologically intr...