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Colm Toibin - Brooklyn (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9780241972700
Synopsis
Winner of The Costa Novel Award 2009.
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.
It is Ireland in the early 1950's and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.
Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.
* Waterstones Special Edition, including film stills & a piece by the author. *
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Historical Fiction
- Published : 2009 (This Film Tie-In Edition 2015 - Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780241972700
- SKU : B003072
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork." - Sunday Times.
'Magnificent' - Sunday Telegraph.
"The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time." - Zoë Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year.
"A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life." - Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year.
"Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment." - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year.
"This story was tender, sad and beautiful." - Goodreads Review.
The Author
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
Featured Author . . . Colm Toibin
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