The Empty Family: Stories - Hardcover

Colm Tóibín

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670918172 ISBN 13: 9780670918171

Publisher: London: Viking Penguin, 2010

Synopsis

Unusual book

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About the Author:

Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Brooklyn which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, and an earlier collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.

Review:

Colm Toibin's new collection is the work of an author at the peak of his writing powers The Times Always deeply moving, the stories here - like the surf-washed pebbles on that Wexford beach - will be read for meaning and enjoyed for their shape and sound for ages to come Tribune It's a collection that will only further fuel Toibin's ascent through English fiction Independent on Sunday Exquisite ... The chief reason to read these stories is the peculiar power of Colm Toibin's prose Telegraph Astonishingly precise, depicting complex and conflicted states of mind with rare clarity Observer Beautifully observed Sunday Times Toibin's deceptively straightforward style continues to manage somehow to encompass both lucidity and ambiguity, precision and poetry Irish Times Exquisite Metro, Fiction of the Week These stories are always intensely interesting and sometimes profoundly provocative Irish Independent Perfect; and as good as the best of William Trevor, than which there can be no higher praise Scotsman

About this edition

• Publisher: London: Viking Penguin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670918172
• ISBN 13: 9780670918171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224