Brooklyn / Colm Tóibín
- Bib ID:
- 10034985
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, author
- Edition:
- Picador edition.
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2024
- ©2009
- 252 pages ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781761269844 (paperback)
- Series:
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- Tóibín, Colm, 1955-. Eilis Lacey ; 1.
- Eilis Lacey ; 1.
- Summary:
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Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable "merchant of Italian origin". Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new.
- Notes:
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- First published 2009.
- "Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize" -- on front cover.
- Source of Acquisition:
- A copy has been contributed to the Library through legal deposit.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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