Summary
Tóibín himself is at his most eloquent at such ambiguous moments: as when, in "A Journey", a mother drives her depressed son - "suffering from silence" - home from hospital; her husband has recently suffered a stroke, and she catches "a glimpse of a future in which she would need to muster every ounce of selfishness she had".
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The Sound of Silence
The sound of silence Mothers and Sons Colm Tóibín Picador, 310pp, £12.99
Conventionally, the lot of an Irish mother is to talk into a void. This is the subtext of the old joke about how many native housewives it takes to change a light b...See the full content of this document
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