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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."
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.
9 maj 2024 · Tóibín's latest, a sequel to his 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is a devastating portrait of an Irish immigrant whose Italian American husband is expecting a baby with another woman.
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.
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...
7 maj 2024 · 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...
23 maj 2024 · Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever....
