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| Original Title: | Brooklyn |
| ISBN: | 1439138311 (ISBN13: 9781439138311) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Eilis Lacey, Father Flood, Mrs Kehoe, Rose Lacey, Antonio "Tony" Giuseppe Fiorello, Jim Farrell |
| Setting: | Enniscorthy(Ireland) Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009), Costa Book Award for Novel (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011) |
Colm Tóibín
Hardcover | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.67 | 88822 Users | 10404 Reviews
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| Title | : | Brooklyn |
| Author | : | Colm Tóibín |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Scribner hardcover edition May 2009 |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | May 5th 2009 by Scribner (first published April 29th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Romance |
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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 offers 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.
Rating Regarding Books Brooklyn
Ratings: 3.67 From 88822 Users | 10404 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Brooklyn
It's hard to read anything about books without hearing gushing praise for Brooklyn, so I settled in for a brilliant work about immigration and America and New York and alienation and crushing hard work and etc. Brooklyn, though, is no The Jungle or Call It Sleep. Set partially in 1950-ish Ireland and partly in Brooklyn, the novel follows spineless and benign Eilis through her voyage to the United States (arranged by her sister and a kind priest), where she receives a job, is enrolled someOh, what a lovely novel this is. It is the story of Eilis, a young woman from small-town Ireland who moves to America in the 1950s and finds herself all alone in the strange city of Brooklyn. If you have seen the movie version, a beautiful film starring Saoirse Ronan, you know the basic outline of the plot: Eilis rents a room in Brooklyn and finds a job in a shop. She becomes so homesick that she makes herself ill. She starts taking night classes, and later meets a nice boy at a dance.
Thinking again about this lovely book, nearly seven years after I first read it, how it has stayed with me, how Tóibín has moved and influenced me as a reader and a writer. Original Review, posted June 7, 2009This gentle, quietly resonant novel showed me a new side of Colm Tóibín's writing. At first blush it seems a simple coming-of-age story of a young Irish immigrant alone in New York. But Tóibín, though he writes with affection, keeps enough distance from his characters to allow his reader to
Quick and easy read. A coming of age story about an Irish working-class girl who immigrates all alone to Brooklyn. Simple sums it up. The protagonist, the prose, the setting, the story, right down to the 50s era, a simpler time. Not to be confused with easy, never that. Thought Colms depiction of Eilis Laceys feelings of alienation "the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar" & battle with depression "all of the colour had been washed out of her world" well done. As for
It's hard to read anything about books without hearing gushing praise for Brooklyn, so I settled in for a brilliant work about immigration and America and New York and alienation and crushing hard work and etc. Brooklyn, though, is no The Jungle or Call It Sleep. Set partially in 1950-ish Ireland and partly in Brooklyn, the novel follows spineless and benign Eilis through her voyage to the United States (arranged by her sister and a kind priest), where she receives a job, is enrolled some
Brooklyn This is my first Colm Toibin. I thought it would be a challenging read but I was wrong.... I sank right into the story from the start and it was beautifully written. It starts with Eilis growing up in 1950s Ireland with her older sister, Rose. Her brothers had already moved to England to find employment. The lack of prospects in small town Ireland is portrayed well. When the family has a visit from an Irish American priest, things are quickly set in motion, paperwork, employment,
Some books are worth sticking with. To call this book a slow starter would be to evoke a drastic understatement. After around a hundred or so pages, I was beginning to wonder if this book was actually going anywhere. There was a completer lack of plot, as the mundane life of an ordinary girl unfolded in all its blandness. However, as the novel progressed it built up momentum, ever so slowly until the point where it became a heart racing crescendo of uncertainty. The true shame of this book,
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