Brooklyn
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-2024
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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. Told with a masterful and elegant simplicity, Brooklyn is a sublime Trans-Atlantic coming-of-age story by one of the UK's greatest living writers.
Main title:
Brooklyn / Colm Tóibín.
Author:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, author
Edition:
Picador edition.
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2024.©2009
Collation:
252 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Eilis Lacey ; 1.
Notes:
First published 2009.Series information from Goodreads.
ISBN:
9781761269844 (pbk)9781761269844
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
564661
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | TOIB | Onloan - Due: 28 Jun 2025 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | TOIB | Onloan - Due: 08 Jul 2025 |
| Brighton Library | Paperbacks | T | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | TOIB | Available |