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Mothers and Sons: Stories
Paperback – January 1, 2008
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"It's truly remarkable that a writer of Toibin's great felicity, immense seriousness and general large awareness -- a writer so naturally gifted as a novelist -- can deliver short stories of such subtle empathy and brilliance. He's dazzling." -- Richard Ford "Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity....These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted." -- Literary Review (uk) "Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer." -- The Guardian
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician , his most recent novel; The Master , winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn , winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary ; and Nora Webster , 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. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
Publisher
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Scribner; Reprint edition (January 1, 2008)
Language
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English
Paperback
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304 pages
ISBN-10
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1416534660
ISBN-13
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978-1416534662
Item Weight
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8.8 ounces
Dimensions
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5.25 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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I don't usually care for short stories. I prefer the length of a novel to get to know a character, but Toibin is so skilled at delineating his characters that it requires only a few paragraphs to know them. I remember two of the stories, the longest and the shortest, best of all. The short one is about the tensions between a folk-singing mother, who wants to forget her past, and her son, who wants to revive it. In the other story, almost novella-length, the mother is absent. Lost in the snowy landscape, she doesn't appear at all, as her son and husband search for her. All of these stories portray the importance of a mother in a son's life, his maturing and the role she plays in the man he becomes. Colm Toibin is a master.
So what are these stories about? Despite the title, mostly not about mothers and sons, or only peripherally so. As I have felt before with Tóibín, I sense an elusiveness there, as though the real author were hiding somewhere in the shadows. Beautiful shadows, don't get me wrong; the man has a great gift for atmosphere, character, and feeling. But these stories, ranging in length from eight pages to over seventy, seemed to be reaching beyond their ostensible subject, towards something that he could not quite find the length, or the form, or the occasion to put into words. Take two stories that are indeed about mothers and sons, specifically about mothers who walk out on their families. "A Song," one of the shortest, is a bittersweet encounter in a country bar between a band singer and his estranged mother, a famous folk singer herself. The pathos of its elusive ending works perfectly at that length, and makes it by far my favorite. By contrast, "A Long Winter," the longest story in the book, is almost a novella. Set in the Spanish Pyrenees, it tells of a young man trying to find his mother, who has left home and been caught in a blizzard. It is detailed and at times exciting, but well before the end it has morphed into something else entirely -- the young man's discovery of his own sexuality. The inconclusive ending is probably the only one possible for that new subject, but it leaves the original topic entirely behind. The writing is honest and believable throughout, but you can see the material fighting against the short-story form, trying to turn into a novel, but not quite succeeding at either length. Perhaps a third story, "Three Friends," gives a clue. A day or so after his mother's funeral, a young man is invited by three friends to a seaside rave, and has his first tentative experience of gay sex. As in the Pyrenean story, there is no direct connection between the mother/son theme and the sexual one; the two are just placed side by side. The writing is somewhat explicit, but nothing like the near-pornography of three of the stories in Tóibín's later collection,
THE EMPTY FAMILY
. Yet it does make me suspect that the true subject in all these tales is the mystery of gay sexuality, its origin, its loneliness, its occasional passion. Tóibín is too wise a writer to imply that this is a universal situation, or that there is any causality between one thing and another. These are no more than tentative analogies to his own experiences. He writes of connections that are not made, families that are broken up, lives lived in absence or sorrow. You see him feeling towards instances, memories, regrets, but never quite bringing them into the light. All his stories seem to end in ellipses, as though he were merely offering us something to consider, then moving on. [I noticed this even in his novel
THE MASTER
, which is wonderful at taking you into the mind of its subject, Henry James, but presents no cogent reason why it should begin or end where it does.] Yet it makes the whole book rather unfocused. I can certainly respect Tóibín's exploration of the emotional half-world, but there are times when I would just like a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Grady Harp Top Contributor: Children's Books
One of our most intensely refined and challenging writers of the day, Colm Tóibín presents a new set of nine short stories correlated by the theme and title of mothers and sons, stories that mine the always fascinating relationship between mothers and sons, both positive and negative sides. This is writing of such apparent simplicity that the craftsmanship of his work is taken for granted - the mark of a truly fine writer. Here is a collection of stories to be read slowly, allowing time to digest each experience fully before moving on to the next. 'The Use of Reason' explores a son's theft of valuable art and the consequences of his actions result in a confrontation with his alcoholic mother that supercedes the criminal act. In the brief 'The Song' a young musician almost mistakenly hears his miscreant mother singing a ballad that should erase years of desertion just as in 'Famous Blue Raincoat' the son discovers songs his mother recorded with her hippie sister before disaster struck the drug-impacted band. In 'The Name of the Game' a mother attempts to recover the errors of her deceased husband in making a life for her son, unknowingly at odds with her son's true needs and goals. A mother faces the infamy of her priest son when his history of sexual abuse surfaces in 'A Priest in the Family', and in 'A Summer Job' the devotion of a son to his grandmother overshadows his relationship to his mother. In 'Three Friends' and 'A Long Winter' Tóibín delicately and with subtle sensitivity introduces same sex themes to embroider stories of strong and powerful tales. For this reader 'A Long Winter' (the longest of the stories) is so excellent it could be stretched into an entire novel! Tóibín finds unique lines of communication among his characters, some with words, others with quiescent descriptors, and the flow of his use of the English language peppered with bits and pieces of both Irish culture and Spanish concepts (in 'The Long Winter') is lyrical, pungent and abundantly enriching to read. His mind is fertile and his style of writing is full of grace and feeling. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 07
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good short stories - not to be missed
How is it that so many Irish writers are simply fantastic? (I'm not Irish, so not biased) Especially their short stories! I love a GOOD short story with an ending that doesn't leave you hanging but does make you think.... and these are exactly that. In fact having only recently discovered this author I now adore him - his writing is interesting and absorbing, the style is brilliant and draws you in, the characters are totally believable.... in short, he is an extremely clever man. It's so good to feel you can rely on a writer never to disappoint - I'm moving on to read everything else he has written!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Undercurrents
A compelling writer and a common theme uniting these stories...the special relationship between mothers and sons. Often dysfunctional, not always likeable characters but the situations are real and as readers we are made to feel their reality. There are no tidy solutions as in life - only uncompromising observation of human nature & the sometimes odd way we behave to one another, the things left unsaid. No happy endings, sometimes no definitive ending...just a moment caught in time. I prefer his longer stories where characters can change and situations be resolved. His descriptions of nature never fail to capture a mood but all rather depressing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Memorable stories
The thread that ties the beautifully written nine stories in this book together is that in each one there is a complex relationship between a mother and a son. I don't think that all of them `focus' on this relationship, as the blurb on the back has it, for only in four of the nine stories is it central. Rather, each one seems to me to focus on either the mother or the son; but whichever it is, we are let deeply into that person's thoughts and see the world through that person's eyes, and mostly it is a sad or even tragic world. A death figures in several of the stories. Some are most evocatively set in various very Irish communities: a criminal one in the first story, an Irish pub in the second, a small village where everyone knows everyone else in others. The long last story is set in the mountains of Spain. All are memorable in their deceptively simple style and in their psychological content.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Left wanting more from such an excellent author
Excellent author, excellent writing however I would have liked more in-depth stories. If you are just looking for short stories to dip in and out of then it hits the spot... I was left wanting more from each story.
4.0 out of 5 stars
"The story of the night" had such a strong smell ...
"The story of the night" had such a strong smell, that I got an allergic reaction and had to throw it out. I suppose it had been treated with some stuff against moist or mice, staying maybe in a cellar. Plse look into this matter.
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