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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
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- 06. Jan. 2025
Captivating!!!!
Absolutely Love this Story!!!! This is a Heartfelt Story of how a Young immigrant would feel leaving there Family and and entering into a whole new Life on her own entering through ellis Island , home sickness, loss, Love , and huge tough desions to be made on Her future. Its a well put together RideBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Sep. 2016
Fabulous book
Book came very quickly and was in great shape. I love this book!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Mär. 2020
Brooklyn story of immigrants struggle in new land.
All used books are in almost new condition! Great read besides!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Sep. 2018
As advertised
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