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Stories
Scribner
January 2008
On Sale: January 1, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 1416534660
EAN: 9781416534662
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Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written,
intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative
moment that alters the delicate balance of power between
mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one
another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Tóibín writes
of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions,
by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives
they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in
one night. A famous singer captivates an audience, yet
cannot beguile her own estranged son. And in "A Long
Winter," Colm Tóibín's finest piece of cction to date, a
young man searches for his mother in the snow-covered
mountains where she has sought escape from the husband who
controls and confines her. Winner of numerous awards for his fifth novel, The Master --
including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Tóibín brings
to this stunning first collection an acute understanding of
human frailty and longing. These are haunting, profoundly
moving stories by a writer who is himself a master.
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