Brooklyn

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Product Details
Price
$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.3 X 7.9 X 0.9 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781439148952

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About the Author
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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Praise for Brooklyn

"Written with mesmerizing power and skill." --Richard Eder, Boston Globe

"Colm Tóibín ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times

"Tóibín creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret." --Time

"Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read." --Entertainment Weekly

"[A] gem of a novel... profound." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"Quietly majestic." --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books

"[A] masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date." --Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times

"[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations." --USA Today