Mothers and Sons

Tóibín, Colm

ISBN 10: 0330441825 / ISBN 13: 9780330441827

Published by London Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd 2006, 2006

About this Item

First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '135798642'. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine, and grey endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [8], 312. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # 100934

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mothers and Sons

Publisher: London Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd 2006

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin 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 Toibin as great prose stylist of our time. Praise for "The Master" includes: 'An audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book' - Hermione Lee, "Guardian". 'The Master is not short of a masterpiece.' - "Independent on Sunday".

About the Author:

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.