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Chargement... MOTHERS and SONS (original 2006; édition 2007)par Colm Toibin (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. this book really grew on me. i started out liking the writing so much more than the people presented, but by the end i also cared very much about the characters. toibin's descriptions of both peoople and places are so well presented, and he frequently tells details that coukd be inconsequential, but in his hands, they had so much to the character's lives. i was often disappointed when the story ended, but i also knew that in life we need to live it to know the ending. ( ) Com Toibin's beautiful prose is the standout feature of this collection. He writes with precision and delicacy and evokes emotion with patience and restraint. However the plotting, characterisation and themes are somewhat inconsistent. The settings are very Irish, all dead mothers and villages where everybody knows your business, which I struggle to relate to unless there are more universal themes addressed. The first two stories, "The Use of Reason" and "A Song" left me cold, as they described situations that were neither familiar nor interesting to me. I decided to persist and was glad I did when the subtle realism of "The Name of the Game" was up next. I wavered again in "Famous Blue Raincoat", but from there the stories alternated between wonderful and disappointing. One of my great frustrations with short stories, and one of the reasons I don't often read them, is that by the time I've decided if a story is any good, it's almost over. There's rarely the chance to settle into a story knowing that the next pages will be worth savouring. Obviously this collection doesn't do anything to change that reservation, but the rewards - in the form of moving, emotionally true stories - are worth the frustrations, in my view. Por primera vez en castellano, los mejores cuentos del autor de Brooklyn, ganador de los premiosImpac yForster. Cólm Tóibín se ha consolidado como uno de los grandes narradores contemporáneos de la literatura anglosajona. Comparado a menudo con Henry James, uno de sus grandes referentes, en nuestro país empieza a obtener el reconocimiento que ya tiene en Europa y en Estados Unidos. En este volumen, que recopila sus mejores cuentos, Tóibín aborda los grandes asuntos de su universo literario: las relaciones entre madres e hijos, la sociedad de Dublín, la imagen del hogar, el exilio y la inmigración e incluso nos ofrece un retrato espléndido y en absoluto convencional de Barcelona, una ciudad que conoce muy bien porque vivió en ella durante los años de la transición. Dueño de una prosa precisa y armónica y de una gran capacidad de penetración psicológica, Colm Tóibín es ya, gracias tanto a sus novelas como a sus relatos, un nuevo maestro. Colm Tóibín's writing never fails to move me in its quietly powerful simplicity and these wonderful short stories are every bit as satisfying as his novels. The exploration of relationships between mothers and sons is full of insightful reflections and the quality of the writing is, at times. quite breathtaking. This is a collection of stories which needs to be savoured and I know that I will be returning to them in order to enjoy the beauty of the prose.
From Publishers Weekly Nine stories from the author of The Master, The Blackwater Lightship and three other novels explore what happens when mothers and sons confront one another as adults. The sons include a middle-aged petty criminal, a young alienated pub musician and a regular guy whose drug-fueled mourning takes him into new sexual territory. The mothers include a widow who married above her class, a woman whose son's depression hangs over her and her husband's lives and a woman whose son is a priest being charged with abuse. In "The Name of the Game," the widowed Nancy Sheridan finds herself saddled with three children and a debt-ridden supermarket. In "Famous Blue Raincoat," former–folk-rock sensation-turned-smalltime-photographer Lisa is distressed by her son Luke's interest in her band, but refuses to tread on his curiousity, which forces her to reconfront the band's painful end. Longing, frustrated expectations and an offhandedly gorgeous Ireland run steadily throughout—except in the concluding, near-novella-length "A Long Winter," set in a Spanish village, and featuring Miguel, his younger brother, Jordi, and their mother, whose drinking may not be the only secret Miguel discovers during preparations for Jordi's departure for his military service. Wistful, touching and complex, these stories form a panoramic portrait of loss. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ContientPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
A sequence of nine short works explores the intricate bonds between mothers and sons as reflected at pivotal junctures that shift the way each sees and understands the other. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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