TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tóibín,Colm
TI  - Brooklyn: a novel 
SN  - 9781501106477
AV  - PR6070.O455 B76 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
KW  - Irish
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - fast
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ireland
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Brooklyn
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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