Tibor Fischer

They fill you with the faults they had

Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell and Shakespeare are among the sons featured in Dale Salwak’s miscellany

  • Writers and their Mothers

    ed. Dale Salwak

    Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 257

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