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12 wrz 2024 · More than two decades after Colm Tóibín published his beloved novel Brooklyn, he has surprised fans (and himself) by writing Long Island, a follow-up featuring many of the same characters.
10 cze 2024 · Long Island by Colm Tóibín. A striking thing about reading Toibin's novel “Brooklyn” was how much its emotional power slowly crept up on me. The story follows Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who is coaxed into moving to America in the 1950s to find work.
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16 maj 2024 · May 16, 2024. Location. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum. Download transcript. Event Details. Tóibín discusses the continuing story of Eilis Lacey in his long awaited follow-up to the bestselling and beloved Brooklyn. In-person registration for this event has sold out, but livestream tickets are still available.
6 maj 2024 · Long Island by Colm Tóibín Expected publication: May 7, 2024 Rating: ★★★★ Order it here: Long Island. Twenty years after the end of Brooklyn, the readers is brought back into the life of Eilis Lacey, a woman who left her home country of Ireland to come to the United States.
9 maj 2024 · Such was the exodus route of many mostly white working- and middle-class New Yorkers during the late 1960s and '70s, when the city was perceived to be in decline. So it makes historical sense for Colm Tóibín's sequel to his 2009 best-seller, "Brooklyn," to be called "Long Island."
7 maj 2024 · Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
