<b>Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín explores the relationships of writers with their families and their work in the brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original <i>New Ways to Kill Your Mother</i>.</b><BR> <BR>Tóibín—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays—traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. <BR> <BR>Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, <i>New Ways to Kill Your Mother </i>is a fascinating look at writers’ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.