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- Number of Pages: 256
- ISBN: 1439138311
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112523742
- Release Date: May 5, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #3349 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Brooklyn" by Colm Toibin to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Brooklyn"Browse more products related to "Colm Toibin"Review"Toibin's tributes to old New York...beautifully reflect on a time past, but it's Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart that make this novel such a moving, deeply satisfying read." "Colm Toibin, with his new novel BROOKLYN, has...accomplished something quietly majestic. His calm, lucid, and patient prose...has given life...[to] young Eilis Lacey....That [he] can conjure for us her trajectories both glimpsed and lived, in their satisfactions and sadness...is a meaningful accomplishment indeed." "BROOKLYN is Colm Toibin's most beautifully executed novel to date....Reading [him] is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect." "Colm Toibin...is an expert, patient fisherman of submerged emotions....[He] quietly, modestly shows how place can assert itself, enfolding the visitor, staking its claim." "A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Toibin's ever-increasing skills and range." (starred review) Publisher's noteLeaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey reluctantly parts with her sister and fragile mother and discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness. AnnotationFrom the award-winning author of THE MASTER, a moving historical novel--by far Toibin's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart Eilis Lacey, an Irish lass who leaves behind her beloved mother and sister to come to postwar America, is the shimmering center of Colm Toibin's sixth novel. Eilis finds work as the bookkeeper at a local department store and slowly begins to insinuate herself into her colorfully repressed Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The unlikely foundation of her new life is Tony, a spirited Italian boy with a sprawling family. Tony patiently courts the shy, lonely Eilis, and his boisterous relatives momentarily allow her to forget about her own kin. But Eilis's suddenly idyllic existence is soon shattered by a tragedy that will force her to choose between her evaporating past and her propitious future. If You Enjoy "Brooklyn (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Brooklyn (Hardcover)" by Colm Toibin (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Others BestsellersExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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