Mothers and sons
By: Colm Tóibín.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Description: "Mothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation 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." "A son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach near Dublin. In the course of this one night his grief and desire for raw feeling combine with exquisite intensity. A mother sings about treacherous love to a rapt crowd of musicians in a local pub. Her unacknowledged son meets her eyes, unable to approach her. And in 'A Long Winter', Colm Toibin's finest piece of fiction to date a son goes searching for his mother in the snow-covered Pyrenees."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents: title: The use of reason; title: A song; title: The name of the game; title: Famous blue raincoat; title: A priest in the family; title: A journey; title: Three friends; title: A summer job; title: A long winter.