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Title: BETWEEN MOTHERS AND SONS: Women Writers Talk About Having Sons and Raising Men by Patricia Stevens ISBN: 0-684-85072-9 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 02 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Memorable reading, great range of experiences
Comment: Each in her own way, the writers in this collection make complex connections -- with their sons and with readers. There's a great range of experiences here for the reader who wants to concentrate on the mother-son relationship rather than on family relationships in general.
I sometimes cried and more often laughed -- but I also thought about my female friends and their sons, and agreed with what I was reading -- then remembered my mother and sisters and their sons, and argued back -- considered my male friends, and understood more than I had before.
The authors had some great stories to tell, and the quality of the writing fully repaid a second (and for some essays, a third) reading. The author's own very moving contribution was my favorite, but months after reading the book, there are many moments I remember.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible
Comment: I bought Between Mothers and Sons for myself as a Mother's Day gift when my son was 3 months old. I was moved viscerally by the essays contained in this book. Although I do agree with the reviewer from Wisconsin that the collective voice of these essays is limited, I feel that the emotional tumult felt and expressed by these very talented women is universal.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great writing but limited perspective
Comment: Stevens has gathered a well-written and insightful collection of essays by very talented women. The challenges of raising sons are presented in sometimes poignant, frequently amusing, and generally thought-provoking ways. But I kept wishing for some other perspectives. All of the women whose writings are collected here seem to be on a single page. They're all feminists; few get any child-rearing help or wisdom from the boys' fathers; most seem to have no spiritual foundation (LaMott is an obvious exception). I would have liked to read a more balanced collection of authors.
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Title: Mothers and Sons: In Their Own Words by Mariana Ruth Cook, Isabel Allende, Mariana Cook ISBN: 0811811700 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Raising the Next Generation of Men by Ann F. Caron ISBN: 0060976489 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hold Me Close, Let Me Go : A Mother, A Daughter and an Adolescence Survived by ADAIR LARA ISBN: 0767905083 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Daniel J. Kindlon, Michael Thompson, Dan Kindlon, Teresa Barker ISBN: 0345434854 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Mothers, Sons, and Lovers by MICHAEL GURIAN ISBN: 0877739455 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 23 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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