Scribner, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2012. Scribner ISBN 1451668554 9781451668551 [US]

ISBN10: 1451668554, ISBN13: 9781451668551, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover First Edition First U.S. Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "In a brilliant, nuanced and wholly original collection of essays, the novelist and critic Colm Tóibín explores the relationships of writers to their families and their work. From Jane Austen's aunts to Tennessee Williams's mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature's greatest works. Toibin traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties in NEW WAYS TO KILL YOUR MOTHER. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, and J. M. Synge and his mother, Toibin examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents, Toibin perceives an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheever's journals, Toibin illuminates this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and children. 'Educating an intellectual woman,' Cheever remarked, 'is like letting a rattlesnake into the house.' Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, NEW WAYS TO KILL YOUR MOTHER is a fascinating look at writers' most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work." [jacket copy] "Delicacy is one of ...