New Ways to Kill Your Mother

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Copyright © 2012 by Colm Tóibín

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

New ways to kill your mother : writers & their families / Colm Tóibín.

eISBN: 978-0-7710-8442-3

1. Families in literature. 2. Literature, Modern — History and criticism. I. Title.

PN56.F3T65 2012 809’.933525 C2011-907968-2

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