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Synopsis
Colm Tóibín’s new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Tóibín shows how their relationship with either a mother or a son, or their relationship to their own role as mother or son, reveals something unique and important about them. The stories feature Ireland or Irish narrators, but they are also truly universal.
In ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ unwelcome memories are stirred when a mother, once a singer in an Irish folk-rock band of some popular renown in the 60s, finds that her son has been listening to their old records - songs she hoped never to hear again. In ‘Water’, a son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach outside Dublin. In the course of this one night his grief and desire for raw feeling combine with exquisite and devastating intensity.
At once beautifully playful, psychologically intricate, emotionally incisive, finely-wrought and fearless these stories tease out the delicate and difficult strands which are woven between mothers and sons. Sometimes shocking and always powerful, this masterful new collection confirms Tóibín as great prose stylist of our time.
Praise for The Master:
‘An audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book’ Hermione Lee, Guardian
‘The Master is not short of a masterpiece’ Independent on Sunday
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Review
'Bleak and beautiful tales of motherhood, motherland and
betrayal'
-- Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
'Clarity and beautifully nuanced precision create his artistic
distance... sureness of touch' -- Spectator
'It may not be going too far to suggest Irish Fiction has found
its first Master of the new century’ -- Scotland on Sunday
'Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity...these are
beautiful stories, beautifully crafted' -- Kate Saunders, Literary Review
`All [the stories] share a miraculous density. Short but weighty,
they contain whole lives' -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
`Compelling... Tóibín is a master of the blind allies of desire...
Tóibín commands admiration and respect' -- The Times
`Moving... beautifully captured moments of longing and loss...
[Tóibín] is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer' -- Guardian
`No one writes about loss like Tóibín' -- Time Out
‘Tóibín achieves his effects in scrupulously understated prose,
conveying psychological complexity in straightforward, very subtly rhythmic
language' -- Sunday Telegraph
‘Tóibín’s prose, as dry and detached as ever...packs a powerful
emotional charge’ -- Daily Mail
Book Description
A collection of exquisite stories from Booker-shortlisted Colm Tóibín
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0330441825
- ISBN 13 9780330441827
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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