Name: Mothers and Sons
Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780330441834

Colm Toibin

A collection of short stories that explores the complex relationships between mothers and their sons.

Mothers and Sons

A sequence of nine short works explores the intricate bonds between mothers and sons as reflected at pivotal junctures that shift the way each sees and understands the other.

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S.M.

The first Tóibín I read was "The Master," a novel about one of my favorite authors, Henry James. Tóibín's writing was luminous and tight and I so enjoyed it. This short story collection didn't have quite the impact on me that "The Master" did, but it is quite good. While the stories share the theme of mothers and sons, they completely different from one another. So much so, in some cases it was hard to believe they were all by the same author. I look forward to reading more of Tóibín's work. 

Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.

Mothers and Sons

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