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Scribner
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 1439138311
EAN: 9781439138311
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Fiction
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth
novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the
early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make
a new life for herself.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the
years following World War Two. Though skilled at
bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish
economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor
Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn
neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must
go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister
behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street,
and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond
Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with
patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets
Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he
shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having
children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to
fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland
threatens the promise of her future. By far Tóibín's most instantly engaging and emotionally
resonant novel, Brooklyn will make readers fall in love
with his gorgeous writing and spellbinding characters.
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