City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Speechless, Tom Lanoye ; translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent

Speechless

Tom Lanoye ; translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Good-natured and often humorous, Speechless is at times a 'song of curses', as Lanoye describes the conflicts with his beloved diva of a mother and her brave struggle with decline and death. This is an informal, honest testimony of a mother by her son. But it's also the portrait of a generation, of family life in the sixties and seventies. Speechless will speak to anyone who has a family