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A mother's guiding hand
From: Sunday Star-Times
Date: 20020512
Author:SHARP, Iain
Ronald Hugh Morrieson loved his mum. Lord Byron fought savagely with his. Louisa May Alcott's seems to have been thoroughly admirable and Allen Ginsberg's thoroughly mad.
On Mother's Day, Iain Sharp looks at some creative writers and their creators.
TWO of the biggest-selling books of recent years have been sons' accounts of their mothers' struggles: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and The Colour of Water by James McBride.
Cursed with a husband who squandered what little money there was on booze before deserting the family entirely, Angela McCourt was sometimes reduced to begging to keep ...
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