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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."
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".
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Karbo's novels often draw on personal experiences—in college and the film industry, and with marriage, mortality and motherhood. [27] [28] [29] Her first, Trespassers Welcome Here (1990, Village Voice Top Ten Book of the Year), tapped into her work in the USC Russian department to explore life in the West for a group of Russian emigres in a university Slavic languages department: a quartet ...
Her debut essay collection, “Thank You for Staying With Me” (University of Nebraska Press, March 2025), which navigates young motherhood and loving her complicated home of Missouri, is ...
Clare, like Strayed, loses her mom at a young age. Merritt Wever plays a version of Bobbi Lambrecht, Strayed's mom who died when the author was 22 years old. (Laura Dern played her in "Wild.")
The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite varied, ranging from pedophilia to lesbianism, but linked by an interest in female subjectivity [3] and in the dialectic of discourse and intercourse. [4] Many of the same characters that appear in Delta of Venus, her first published book of erotica ...
Marcon is a full-spectrum fantasy and science fiction convention based in Columbus, Ohio, and was on Easter weekend in 2013 but moved to Mother's Day weekend starting in 2014. [1] It is now operated by the Columbus-based Science Oriented Literature, Art, and Education Foundation, a non-profit educational corporation. [ 2 ]