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Upon release, Mothers and Sons was generally well-received. On Bookmarks March/April 2007 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with the critical summary saying, "In his first short-fiction collection, Colm Tóibín takes a compelling look at the ties that bind".
Literary Mama (LiteraryMama.com) is a U.S.-based online literary magazine focused on publishing writing about motherhood in a variety of genres. The writings found in Literary Mama challenge all types of media to rethink its narrow focus of what mothers think and do.
Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson , published in 1748.
Leda: protagonist and narrator. Forty-eight-year-old English literature professor, divorced, mother of two daughters. Nina: young mother of twenty-two. Elena: also known as Lenù, Nina's daughter. Rosaria: Nina's sister-in-law, she is expecting her first child. Gino: lifeguard on the beach where Leda goes, in love with Nina.
The School for Good Mothers has received comparisons, due to its subject matter and thematic content, to the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. [9] [10] Chan has said the comparisons are "thrilling beyond [her] wildest dreams". [2] The novel was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. [11]
Seven Stories Press. ISBN: 9781583220726: Description ... Contributors to Mother Reader are Margaret Atwood, Susan Bee, Rosellen Brown, Myrel Chernick, ...
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Variety wrote: "A potentially gripping psychodrama about an attractive young mother's neurotic, suggestively incestuous passion for her adolescent son is unevenly directed by John Newland and miscast with Romy Schneider as the mother. The result is a visually-creative dramatic mishmash with dull boxoffice prospects."