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The Book Case

Adam Haslett Examines Mothers & Sons

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Adam Haslett’s new novel, Mothers & Sons is a brilliant book examining the relationships between mothers and sons from all sorts of angles.  The story of Peter and his mother Ann, who have so much in common and yet are estranged.  Compelling, original and moving, this a novel that stays with you.   Books mentioned in this week's episode: Mothers & Sons by Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett You are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout King Lear by William Shakespeare Moby Dick by Herman Melville Tinkers by Paul Harding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome boys and girls. Good to have you back. Men and women, dogs and cats.

0:41.9

Geese and Goslings.

0:43.1

Exactly. Everybody will throw all the species in there.

0:46.5

Whoever wants to listen to the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, we are delighted to have you.

0:50.7

We're trying to reach the barnyard community.

0:52.4

No matter what your species, you are welcoming. Happy Thursday, too, yeah. We should mention, well, should we talk about your Christmas

1:00.7

present to me? Absolutely. Absolutely, because I am such a good present giver that it's worth mentioning

1:05.7

every week. Well, she is a terrific present giver, and in this case, what Kate has given me for Christmas,

1:11.5

was a membership in The Wonderful Author Anne Patchett's Book Club.

1:16.1

And this is not just any book club.

1:18.4

Every month, I'm told, I'm going to receive in the mail her pick for that month,

1:23.8

and it will be a first edition, and it will be signed by the author. So that's a big

1:29.7

darn deal. And there are lots of book clubs around. I mean, Oprah has one and Reese Witherspoon

1:35.3

has one. And the one we care so much about, which is the Good Morning America book club.

1:39.6

Yep.

1:40.0

But this is the only one that I know that is curated by an author, a very successful novelist,

1:46.8

who knows what good writing is.

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