02867cam a2200517Ii 4500 zminfo b47576 MeVbMML 20240529154027.0 141107r20152009nyu 000 1 eng d 9781501106477 1501106473 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCQ CLE OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO NYP OCLCO EDK JBO OCL OCLCO CDN IDU FDA CUS SKYRV n-us-ny e-ie--- PR6070.O455 B76 2015 Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author. 17282 Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín. Scribner trade paperback edition. New York, New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2009 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 Irish United States Fiction. 10360 Women immigrants Fiction. 17283 Irish. fast (OCoLC)fst00978902 17284 Women immigrants. fast (OCoLC)fst01177764 17285 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction. 17286 Ireland History 20th century Fiction. 17287 Ireland. fast (OCoLC)fst01205427 New York (State) New York Brooklyn. fast (OCoLC)fst01312516 17288 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Psychological fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726481 856 Psychological fiction. lcgft 856 Bildungsromans. gsafd 2915 Love stories. gsafd 52 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 48 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 49 .b176486719 ddc BOOK 29698 29698 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-05-29 15.00 0 TOIB 66189 2024-05-29 2024-05-29 BOOK 1