Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
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TextPublisher: New York, New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Scribner trade paperback editionDescription: 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501106477; 1501106473Subject(s): Irish -- United States -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Irish | Women immigrants | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Ireland | New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn | United StatesGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Love stories. | Fiction. | History. LOC classification: PR6070.O455 | B76 2015Awards: Winner of Costa Book Award, 2009Summary: In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | TOIB (Browse shelf) | Available | 66189 |
First published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009
Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn
Winner of Costa Book Award, 2009
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