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* MOTHERS AND SONS: Stories, by Colm Toibin; Scribner, 288 pages, $24.
Nearly as formidable a critic as he is a writer of fiction which is very formidable, indeed Irish writer Colm Toibin once mused that, in his country's literature, "There seemed to be no middle ground between work of pure genius and the ballad."See the full content of this document
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Irish Mothers and Adult Sons
In his first collection of short stories, "Mothers and Sons," the 52-year-old Toibin has achieved s...
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