NEW WAYS TO KILL YOUR MOTHER

From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining b
ook about writers and their families. In this wonderfully entertaining and enlig
htening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship b
etween writers and their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and w
it, the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly responding t
o his own father's literary efforts; Thomas Mann ruining his children's prospect
s; Tennessee Williams haunted by his sister's mental illness; and John Cheever b
eing beastly to his wife.