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Brooklyn

Brooklyn( 2 customer ratings | )
Author: Toibin, Colm
Series title:Eilis Lacey Ser.
ISBN:978-1-5011-0647-7
Publication Date:Sep 2015
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

Colm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel--also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Romance / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.25 x 8 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.46 Pounds
Author Biography
Toibin, Colm (Author)
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English.

In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.

His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster.

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