My Mother Never Dies: Stories - Rilegato

Castillon, Claire

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ISBN 10: 0151014264 ISBN 13: 9780151014262

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Riassunto

Nineteen stunning, disturbing short stories delve into the complex relationship between mothers and daughters.
In My Mother Never Dies, the literary provocateur Claire Castillon dissects the darkest aspects of the relationship between mothers and daughters. A woman tries so hard to be friends with her daughter that she begins to revert to her own adolescence; another woman finds her mother engaged in an illicit affair with a man they both know too well; a daughter rattles off all the reasons why she’s disgusted with her invalid mother but realizes through her haze of teenage hatred that she is losing the only person who tells her the truth.
Stunning, shocking, unflinching, and ultimately tender, My Mother Never Dies forces us to look at the worst and best of mothers and daughters. Like the work of Miranda July and A.M.Homes, Castillon won’t let us avert our gaze from the terrible and true any more than from the beautiful and true because it all reveals the depth of our need for each other.

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Recensione

“One can’t help but submit to [its] poisonous charms.”—Le Figaro

“This singular talent really sings: rarely have we seen motherdaughter relationships with such cruelty, such bitterness, or such acuity.”—Lire

L'autore

CLAIRE CASTILLON is the author of five novels and two collections of short stories, many of which have been translated and published throughout the world. My Mother Never Dies is her English-language debut. She is thirty-three years old.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0151014264
• ISBN 13: 9780151014262
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 163