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 ...
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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".
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Very good in good dust jacket. Slightly cocked spine, moderate shelf wear to DJ, binding tight, pages bright and clean. 309 p. Signed by the author on title page ** If you have any queries regarding this book, please don't hesitate to contact us at hello@ravenbooks. ie ** A collection of exquisite stories from Booker-shortlisted Colm Tóibín
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Inscribed by the author: For Mary, with all best wishes, Colm Toibin
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Slight discolouration due to age, otherwise book in excellent condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 309 p. SIGNED BY AUTHOR If you have any queries regarding this book, please don't hesitate to contact us: hello@ravenbooks. ie
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