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Mothers and Sons

by Colm Toibin

From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating 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... (read more)

Top tags: short stories, 2007, contemporary fiction, ireland, read in 2008 (all tags)

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brian d said:

“Mothers are people too--sometimes selfish, horrible, messed up, living without the kind of thing we call "mother-love."
Toibin uses the play of darkness and light so well in many of these stories.”

posted Monday, May 12 2008