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Mothers and Sons 
Author(s) Colm Tóibín Country Ireland Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Picador Publication date 2006 Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 256 pp. ISBN ISBN 0330441825 / 978-1856353496 (first edition, hardcover) OCLC Number 75964519 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 22 LC Classification PR6070.O455 M68 2006 Mothers and Sons is a collection of short stories written by Irish writer Colm Tóibín and published in 2006. The book was published in hardback by Picador, and features nine stories, each of which explores an aspect of the mother-son relationship. The nine stories are as follows:
- The Use of Reason
- A Song
- The Name of the Game
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- A Priest in the Family
- A Journey
- Three Friends
- A Summer Job
- A Long Winter
Mothers and Sons, like other Tóibín fiction, explores homosexuality in Ireland. In addition to mother-son relationships, Tóibín considers gayness alongside Catholicism, and how the two can be compatible in an Irish context.[1]
Most of the nine stories appeared in print elsewhere prior to the book's publication in popular literary periodicals like The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The Dublin Review.
Tóibín has spoken out about the economic disparity between short story collections and novels, the former being not likely to fetch as much popular interest, or, therefore, money, which is the reason (or so he says) he writes in the first place.[2]
References
- ^ Murphy, Robinson (2009). "The Politics of Rebirth in Colm Tóibín's 'Three Friends' and 'A Long Winter'". Irish Studies Review 14 (4): 485–498. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a917105643~db=all~jumptype=rss. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ Flood, Alison. "Best thing about writing? Money". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/03/books-culture-colm-toibin. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
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