Sons and Lovers

"Sons and Lovers, is the story of the emotional crises of a son growing to manhood in the Nottingham coalfields amid the conflict between a possessive and strong mother of middle-class aspirations and a weak, coal-miner father, told with an intensity of feeling and psychological insight that has rarely been duplicated. But it is also a searing picture of the last phase of the Industrial revolution, of a materialist society that dwarfs the individual and blunts his life. In this novel Lawrence combines the hardest sort of realism and an almost lyric imagery and rhythm."