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Brooklyn : A Novel by Colm Toibin (2009, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-101439138311

ISBN-139781439138311

eBay Product ID (ePID)70932972

Product Key Features

Book TitleBrooklyn : a Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicPsychological, Romance / Historical / General, Coming of Age, Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorColm Toibin

Book SeriesEilis Lacey Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.8 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-001548

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists... His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."--Los Angeles Times, "A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds... A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Toibin's ever-increasing skills and range."--Booklist(starred review), "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound." -- Pam Houston, O , the Oprah Magazine, "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect." -- The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound." -- Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine, "Reading Toibin is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect."--The Times Literary Supplement(U.K.), "A beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s... Toibin writes about women more convincingly, I think, than any other living, male novelist." -- Zoe Heller, author of The Believers, "A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds... A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Toiibin's ever-increasing skills and range." --Booklist(starred review), "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes."--The New York Times Magazine, "Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists... His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Los Angeles Times, "A beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s... Toibin writes about women more convincingly, I think, than any other living, male novelist."-- Zoe Heller, author of The Believers, "Reading Tibn is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect." -- The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), "A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds... A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Tóibín's ever-increasing skills and range." -- Booklist (starred review), "Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists... His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." -- Los Angeles Times, "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes." -- The New York Times Magazine, "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes." --The New York Times Magazine, "Reading Toibin is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect." --The Times Literary Supplement(U.K.), "A beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s... Toibin writes about women more convincingly, I think, than any other living, male novelist."-- Zoe Heller, author ofThe Believers, "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound." -- Pam Houston,O, the Oprah Magazine, "Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists... His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."-- Los Angeles Times, "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect."-- The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes."-- The New York Times Magazine

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisFrom the award-winning author of The Master , a hauntingly compelling novel--by far T ib n's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, Eilis cannot find a proper job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn visits the household and offers to sponsor Eilis in America--to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"--she realizes she must go, leaving her fragile mother and sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and studies accounting at Brooklyn College, and, when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian, slowly wins her over with persistent charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. Eilis is in love. But just as she begins to consider what this means, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her new life. With the emotional resonance of Alice McDermott's At Weddings and Wakes , Brooklyn is by far T ib n's most inviting, engaging novel., From the award-winning author of The Master , a hauntingly compelling novel--by far Tóibín's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, Eilis cannot find a proper job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn visits the household and offers to sponsor Eilis in America--to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"--she realizes she must go, leaving her fragile mother and sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and studies accounting at Brooklyn College, and, when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian, slowly wins her over with persistent charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. Eilis is in love. But just as she begins to consider what this means, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her new life. With the emotional resonance of Alice McDermott's At Weddings and Wakes , Brooklyn is by far Tóibín's most inviting, engaging novel.

LC Classification NumberPR6070.O455B76 2009