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7 maj 2024 · LONG ISLAND, by Colm Tóibín. In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey, a fictional character, said goodbye to Enniscorthy, the real town in County Wexford, Ireland, where her creator, the novelist...
Colm Tóibín. 3.79. 39,309 ratings4,368 reviews. From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work, twenty years later.
17 maj 2024 · In Long Island, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Fifties-set Brooklyn, it’s frosted glass doors, Vietnam protests on the tele and people suddenly trying to give up ciggies after years of carefree...
Perhaps I was too harsh. Better, then, to consider Long Island, the latest Enniscorthy novel, in isolation. Although that’s not entirely possible, because this is the first of the five that functions as a fully marketed sequel – to Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most successful novel to date.
15 maj 2024 · ‘Long Island’ is Colm Tóibín’s heartbreaking sequel to ‘Brooklyn’. The author’s latest, an Oprah Book Club pick, brings back Eilis Lacey and revisits the themes of home and loss from a new...
7 maj 2024 · LONG ISLAND. by Colm Tóibín ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 7, 2024. A moving portrait of rueful middle age and the failure to connect.
3 maj 2024 · Opinion. A disorienting, masterful, shape-shifting novel about multiracial identity. April 22, 2024. You don’t have to have read “Brooklyn” to enjoy “Long Island,” but because the new novel...
