Brooklyn (Library Edition)

Colm Toibin

ISBN 10: 1433291886 ISBN 13: 9781433291883

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

In the quiet character of Eilis Lacey, Colm Tóibín has created one of fictions most memorable heroines and in Brooklyn, a luminous novel of devastating power. Tóibín demonstrates once again his astonishing range and that he is a true master of nuanced prose, emotional depth, and narrative virtuosity.

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Review:

Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose. Eilis's determination to embrace the spirit of the journey despite her trepidation--especially on behalf of Rose, who has sacrificed her own chance of leaving--makes a bittersweet center for Brooklyn. Colm Tóibín's spare portrayal of this contemplative girl is achingly lovely, and every sentence rings with truth. Readers will find themselves swept across the Atlantic with Eilis to a boarding house in Brooklyn where she painstakingly adapts to a new life, reinventing herself and her surroundings in the letters she writes home. Just as she begins to settle in with the help of a new love, tragedy calls her home to Enniscorthy, and her separate lives suddenly and painfully merge into one. Tóibín's haunted heroine glows on the page, unforgettably and lovingly rendered, and her story reflects the lives of so many others exiled from home. --Daphne Durham

About the Author:

Colm Toibin is the author of seven novels, including "The Master", winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; "The Testament of Mary", and "Nora Webster", as well as two story collections. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Toibin lives in Dublin and New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433291886
• ISBN 13: 9781433291883
• Binding: Audio CD