{"product_id":"new-ways-to-kill-your-mother-writers-and-their-families-9781451668568","title":"New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families","description":"\u003cb\u003eNovelist and critic Colm T?ib?n provides \"a fascinating exploration of writers and their families\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColm T?ib?n--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, T?ib?n examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, \u003ci\u003eNew Ways to Kill Your Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating look at writers' most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Nora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515271254290,"sku":"9781451668568","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_594a3d90-9666-473e-bd78-f32838d86a22.jpg?v=1731001602","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-ways-to-kill-your-mother-writers-and-their-families-9781451668568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}