num_pages: 256
description: 'Mothers and Sons' is a written medication 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 experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.
language: English
title: MOTHERS AND SONS.
titlecomplete: MOTHERS AND SONS.
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Short Stories, Psychology, Literature, Contemporary, Irish Literature, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2273
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Edge Hill Short Story Prize
publisher: PIcador.