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Mothers and Sons
Colm ToibinThis is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time. 'Colm Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity. Each of the nine stories is a snapshot of a point of crisis . . .
The Heather Blazing: A Novel
Colm ToibinColm Tóibín’s second “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic.
The South: A Novel
Colm ToibinThe South is a novel of classic themes—of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom—to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.
The South: Picador Classic
Colm Toibin. . The South is the book that introduced readers to the astonishing gifts of Colm Tóibín, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991.
On Elizabeth Bishop
Colm TóibínIn this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences—the American poet Elizabeth Bishop.
A Guest at the Feast: A Memoir
Colm TóibínTóibín's captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.
The Use of Reason
Colm TóibínA small time criminal finds himself in too deep by stealing not just cash or jewellery, but four valuable paintings.
Nora Webster: A Novel
Colm ToibinStruggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice.
The Empty Family: Stories
Colm ToibinIn this stunning collection, he cements his status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times). “Silence” is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, ...
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
Colm TóibínHere is W.B. Yeats harshly responding to his own father's literary efforts; Thomas Mann ruining his children's prospects; Tennessee Williams haunted by his sister's mental illness; and John Cheever being beastly to his wife.
The Master
Colm ToibinBeautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London ...
The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel
Colm ToibinShe watched Mick Joyce going into the garden, finding Manus and lifting him on his shoulders, making him laugh and shout; Cathal and his friend followed them as they moved around the garden. She remembered that each time Mick had ...
Amongst Women
John McGahern'A masterpiece.' John Banville 'John McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read.' Colm Tóibín 'It is compact but not dense, spare yet rich, and brimming with tension.' Observer 'An overwhelming experience.
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
Colm TóibínFor four years from 1990, the author made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. This book is the result of the trips.
The Testament of Mary
Colm ToibinA provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that ...
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed ...
Peter TerzianColm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of ...
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and ...
Colm ToibinA collection of linked essays about homosexual literature considers its most influential writers of the past two centuries--including Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Thom Gunn--and how many of them ...
The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish ...
Maurice WalshThis important book is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish history and how our understanding of history generally is shaped by the media. 'an invaluable book' - Colm Tóibín 'tremendously readable and very insightful' - John ...
Book of Numbers
Joshua Cohen‘Dazzling and engrossing’ Colm Tóibín, Guardian A Granta Best Young American Author Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen.
The Empty Family: Stories
Colm ToibinA follow-up to the award-winning Brooklyn includes the stories "The Street," in which Pakistani workers in Barcelona pursue a taboo affair; and "Two Women," in which a taciturn Irish set designer confronts repressed emotions while working ...
Joyce, Milton, and the Theory of Influence
Patrick Colm HoganFrom this perspective, he analyzes the structure and technique of Ulysses and of Finnegans Wake and interprets key passages in a way that helps make these works comprehensible even to a novice reader.
Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects
Colm MulcahySuitable for recreational math buffs and amateur card lovers or as a text in a first-year seminar, this color book offers a diverse collection of new mathemagic principles and effects.
Tolstoy's Pacifism
Colm McKeoghThis work of political science offers an account of Leo Tolstoy as a Christian thinker on political violence. It presents Tolstoy's pacifism as a striking case of the impact of religious idealism on political attitudes.
Heavy rotation: twenty writers on the albums that changed ...
Peter TerzianColm T ib n on Joni Mitchell " James Wood on The Who " Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush " Daniel Handler on Eurythmics " Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders " Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives In ...
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
PreviewCognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, ArturoJ. Aldama, and Patrick Colm Hogan Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture includes monographs and edited volumes that incorporate ...
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