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Scribner, March 2010
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1439148953
ISBN-13: 9781439148952
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“One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, 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, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.
Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.
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Chapter 1"A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound."
-- Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine
"A beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s... Toibin writes about women more convincingly, I think, than any other living, male novelist."
-- Zoe Heller, author of The Believers
"A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds... A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Tóibín's ever-increasing skills and range."
-- Booklist (starred review)
"[A] masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place."
-- Irish Times
"Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists... His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes."
-- The New York Times Magazine
"Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect."
-- The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
"A quiet masterpiece."
-- The Express (U.K.)
New York Times, October 2, 2011
...novelist whose book The Marriage Plot will be published this month. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Middlesex. Colm Toibin, an Irish writer, is the author of The Empty Family Stories and Brooklyn. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man ...
New York Times, October 1, 2011
...novelist whose book The Marriage Plot will be published this month. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Middlesex. Colm Toibin, an Irish writer, is the author of The Empty Family Stories and Brooklyn. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man ...
WA Today, September 9, 2011
...she is faced by a characteristic brightness of opportunity but unlike Eilis Lacey, the purposefully unremarkable narrator of Colm Toibin's 2009 Irish diaspora novel, Brooklyn, she is also dogged by her associations with the political ...
People.com.cn, August 18, 2011
...panels, seminars, recitals and discussions by well-known figures from China and abroad. They include multiple award-winning Irish novelist Colm Toibin; British novelist and journalist Jeanette Winterson; 2010 Man Asia Literary Prize winner ...
America Magazine, March 6, 2010
...and rabid fiction fan, has just been posted to our site. Last summer, the book club took up Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's story of a young Irish woman's journey to adulthood in an unfamiliar country. And the first edition of the book club centered ...
New York Times, January 27, 2010
...It was supposed to be the literary prize that Colm Toibin was going to win in a walk — the one for which his novel “Brooklyn” was named the “runaway favorite” by one British newspaper, for which one British bookmaker ...
BBC, January 26, 2010
...with the £30,000 award at a central London ceremony on Tuesday evening. He beat bookmaker's favourite Colm Toibin, who won the novel award earlier this month with Brooklyn, to take the prize. The award's individual categories are split into ...
BBC, January 26, 2010
...Colm Toibin tipped to win Costa Book of the Year award Irish novelist Colm Toibin is favourite to win the 2009 Costa Book of the Year award for his sixth novel ...
InSing.com, January 26, 2010
...LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Irish writer Colm Toibin is favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year award on Tuesday for "Brooklyn", the story of Irish woman Eilis Lacey who travels to New York in the ...
Kerryman, January 26, 2010
...Irish author Colm Toibin is favourite to land the Costa Book of the Year award with his sixth novel Brooklyn. The work is the story of a young Irish girl who travels to ...
Belfast Telegraph, January 25, 2010
...Irish author Colm Toibin is favourite to land the Costa Book of the Year award with his sixth novel Brooklyn. Related Stories People use NHS '2,000 times each' Teaching unions to ballot ...
Irish Independent, January 9, 2010
...Colm Toibin this week won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, yet another victory by an Irish writer to add to all the other recent triumphs which appear to confirm the arrival ...
Nine MSN, November 24, 2009
...Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall heads the 2009 novels shortlist, which also includes The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson, Colm Toibin's Brooklyn and Family Album by Penelope Lively ...
Yahoo! News Australia, November 24, 2009
...the novel award. The others are Penelope Lively for "Family Album," Christopher Nicholson ("The Elephant Keeper") and Colm Toibin ("Brooklyn").The Costa awards, known as the Whitbread awards until sponsorship changed in 2006, give prizes in ...
InSing.com, November 24, 2009
...for the novel award. The others are Penelope Lively for "Family Album", Christopher Nicholson ("The Elephant Keeper") and Colm Toibin ("Brooklyn"). The Costa awards, known as the Whitbread awards until sponsorship changed in 2006, give ...
Irish Independent, November 8, 2009
...we had a really good relationship." Nuala O'Faolain embarked on a relationship with Mr Low-Beer, a Brooklyn lawyer, late in life after moving to New York on the back of the unexpected success of her searingly honest memoir, Are You Somebody? ...
Examiner.com, November 3, 2009
...are the following: 2. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder 3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 4. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 5. Beautiful Creatures by Margaret Stohl Other notables on the list include #12, A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, ...
Belfast Telegraph, October 22, 2009
...Hand-in-hand with Colm Toibin’s status as a literary heavyweight, it was an unassuming and extremely witty individual who entertained a packed auditorium at the Baby Grand last night. Toibin explained the genesis ...
Irish Independent, October 7, 2009
...in July failed to get on the shortlist of six announced two months ago. The longlist had included Colm Toibin for his summer bestseller 'Brooklyn', William Trevor for his novel 'Love and Summer' and former foreign correspondent Ed O'Loughlin ...
New Zealand Herald, September 19, 2009
...Stranger) is its neglect of a new novel of real distinction. There's one quite extraordinary omission here. Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is, for my money, the closest Booker has come in years to a small masterpiece. Deceptively spare, with a ...
Wicked Local Rockport, September 4, 2009
...open for youngsters to check out books after the program. For more information, call 978-546-6934. Sunday Book Chat ?Brooklyn? by Colm Toibin will be the topic of the next Sunday Book Chat, on Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Trustees Room. The ...
Irish Independent, August 15, 2009
...This month's book club members read Colm Toibin's 'Brooklyn', but all agree that the prize-winning author fails to live up to his potential Share Articles Topics Also in Books Welcome to the Irish Independent Book Club ...
The Age, July 29, 2009
...for Disgrace in 1999 and Life & Times of Michael K in 1983. Others longlisted are Irish writer Colm Toibin, who has been twice shortlisted for the prize in 1999 and 2004 only to miss out, for his book Brooklyn about belonging. First timers ...
PinkPaper.com, July 29, 2009
...Gay writers Colm Toibin and Sarah Waters have made it on to the shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, it has been announced. Jamie Tabberer news. PinkPaper.com 29 July 2009 Gay ...
Buffalo News, July 29, 2009
...Mantel, Wolf Hall; Simon Mawer, The Glass Room; Ed OLoughlin, Not Untrue & Not Unkind; James Scudamore, Heliopolis; Colm Toibin, Brooklyn; William Trevor, Love and Summer; and Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger. James Naughtie, chairman of ...
Buffalo News, July 29, 2009
...Mantel, Wolf Hall; Simon Mawer, The Glass Room; Ed OLoughlin, Not Untrue & Not Unkind; James Scudamore, Heliopolis; Colm Toibin, Brooklyn; William Trevor, Love and Summer; and Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger. James Naughtie, chairman of ...
First Post, July 29, 2009
...Ed O'Loughlin for Not Untrue & Not Unkind (Penguin - Ireland); James Scudamore for Heliopolis (Harvill Secker); Colm Toibin for Brooklyn (Viking); William Trevor for Love and Summer (Viking) and Sarah Waters for The Little Stranger (Virago). ...
Brisbane Times, July 29, 2009
...for Disgrace in 1999 and Life & Times of Michael K in 1983. Others longlisted are Irish writer Colm Toibin, who has been twice shortlisted for the prize in 1999 and 2004 only to miss out, for his book Brooklyn about belonging. First timers ...
The Hindu, July 29, 2009
...Mawer for 'The Glass Room', Ed O'Loughlin - 'Not Untrue & Not Unkind', James Scudamore - Heliopolis; Colm Toibin - 'Brooklyn', William Trevor - 'Love and Summer' and Sarah Waters for 'The Little Stranger' have also made it to the long list ...
Nine MSN, July 28, 2009
...for Disgrace in 1999 and Life & Times of Michael K in 1983. Others longlisted are Irish writer Colm Toibin, who has been twice shortlisted for the prize in 1999 and 2004 only to miss out, for his book Brooklyn about belonging. First timers ...
AFP via Yahoo!, July 28, 2009
...for 'Disgrace' in 1999 and 'Life & Times of Michael K' in 1983. Others longlisted are Irish writer Colm Toibin, who has been twice shortlisted for the prize in 1999 and 2004 only to miss out, for his book 'Brooklyn' about belonging. First ...
Enniscorthy Guardian, July 3, 2009
...COLM TOIBIN READING IN ENNISCORTHY LIBRARY Share Jarlath Glynn, Colm Toibín, David Medcalf and Peg Doyle in Enniscorthy Library last Friday night. Also in News HIS FANS queued to greet the ...
USA Today, June 30, 2009
...Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, about a young Irish woman coming to New York in 1952, is one of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations ...
Denver Post, June 29, 2009
...before Bernard Malamud made it mythological, decades before Paul Auster's magical labyrinth sprang upon its leafy blocks, Brooklyn was home to thousands upon thousands of Irish immigrants. Seventy thousand, to be exact, many of whom came to ...
Denver Post, June 26, 2009
...before Bernard Malamud made it mythological, decades before Paul Auster's magical labyrinth sprang upon its leafy blocks, Brooklyn was home to thousands upon thousands of Irish immigrants. Seventy thousand, to be exact, many of whom came to ...
Denver Post, June 25, 2009
...before Bernard Malamud made it mythological, decades before Paul Auster's magical labyrinth sprang upon its leafy blocks, Brooklyn was home to thousands upon thousands of Irish immigrants. Seventy thousand, to be exact, many of whom came to ...
CBC, June 15, 2009
...Author Colm Toibin talks about his immigrant novel, Brooklyn Irish novelist Colm Toibin, whose new book is called Brooklyn. (Reuters) With its period setting, decidedly linear plot and bare-bones sentences, you could ...
Irish Independent, June 12, 2009
...three children. He was once a promising Harvard student but is now broke and working in construction in Brooklyn. When we meet him, he has had to leave his wife and children with his disapproving mother-in-law and has just four days to raise ...
First Post, May 12, 2009
...The novel 'stands out as remarkable even among Ireland's distinguished roll of fiction about home and exile'. 'Brooklyn is a tremendously moving and powerful work,' said Benjamin Markovits in the New Statesman. TóibÃn 'rarely plays a ...
Cleveland Live, May 10, 2009
...Colm Toibin's 'Brooklyn' is a quiet story about enor mous upheavals, and the novel's restraint is its mastery. Toibin takes us through beautifully rendered scenes, puts us through well-paced ...
WXEL, May 8, 2009
...Book critic Maureen Corrigan says the most remarkable aspect of Colm Toibin's new novel is its heroine, a 'plain Jane' Irish immigrant with limited options. by Maureen Corrigan It's a quandary that even the best novelists have a hard ...
Brooklyn Papers, May 8, 2009
.../ GO Brooklyn / Carroll Gardens?Cobble Hill / Books Community Newspaper Group Irish up: Author Coim Toibin, author of ?Brooklyn,? will read at BookCourt on May 13. Email a friend Your name Your ...
Orlando Sentinel, May 6, 2009
...picking our guest reviewers by heritage: Sentinel staffer (and New York native) Kelly Fitzpatrick holds forth today on Brooklyn, the latest from Irish scribe Colm Tóibín: Eilis Lacey is from a small town in Ireland where she is great with ...
Thelondonpaper, May 5, 2009
...Kazuo Ishiguro and Colm Toibin both hit the mark Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro Nocturnes Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, £14.99 Related Articles Share this Article (What are these?) How interesting was this article? ISHIGURO obsessives ...
Telegraph, May 5, 2009
...Thomas Jones finds Colm Toibin's heroine struggling to reconcile the conflicting lures of small-town Ireland and big-city Brooklyn Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Colm Tibns quietly magnificent new novel, lives with her mother ...
Irish Independent, May 3, 2009
...Brooklyn and Enniscorthy are the twin backdrops for Colm Toibin's new novel, writes Emer O'Kelly Share Articles Topics Also in Books Search Query: Independent.ie Web Search Viking, ?13 ...
The Times, April 19, 2009
...Accolades and acclaim have been heaped on Colm Toibin from the start of his career. His debut novel, The South (1990), won the Irish Times Literature prize for a first book. His second novel, The Heather Blazing (1992 ...
Daily Princetonian, April 16, 2009
...Colm Toibin is a visiting lecturer in creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts. Toibin is an award-winning author and critic. He is teaching ENG 405: Dublin: The City ...
Tampa Bay Newspapers, April 14, 2009
...western, No. 3 in the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch Series, available May 5 from Penguin Group. ? ?Brooklyn,? by Colm Toibin, Irish fiction, available May 5 from Simon and Schuster. ? ?Dark Places,? by Gillian Flynn, crime fiction, ...
Guardian Unlimited, March 27, 2009
...Colm Toibin. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Debut novelist Joanna Smith Rakoff was forced to change the title of her book after it emerged that acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín had plumped for ...
Star Phoenix, February 1, 2009
...who lives alone in a dark little flat.' I'm sure it's better than it sounds. * Colm Toibin, in his first novel since the breathtakingly good The Master, has written Brooklyn, which takes place in Ireland and Brooklyn in the 1950s and is ...
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