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Item Details
Title:
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BROOKLYN
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By: |
Colm Toibin |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£17.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0670918121 |
ISBN 13: |
9780670918126 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
29 April, 2009 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty. |
Synopsis: |
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings on the dance floor of the parish hall - until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself facing a terrible choice: between love and happiness in the land where she belongs and the promises she must keep on the far side of the ocean.Brooklyn is a tender story of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty. In the character of Eilis Lacey Colm Toibin has created a remarkable heroine and in Brooklyn a novel of devastating emotional power. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Viking |
Prizes: |
Winner of Costa Novel Award 2009
Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011
Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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