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23 maj 2024 · From the peak of Tara Hill in Wexford County, one can see the whole of the region where the novel is set. Many of the characters in Long Island frequently travel from Enniscorthy to the nearby (slightly larger) Wexford town for dances or errands, as Tóibín did growing up.
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.
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...
Long Island, published in 2024, is a novel by Colm Tóibín. [1] Reception. According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on fifteen critic reviews, with twelve being "rave" and two being "positive" and one being "mixed". [2] .
7 maj 2024 · Long Island. 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.
7 maj 2024 · Long Island, Colm Tóibín's heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is the rare instance in which a sequel is every bit as good as the original. Brooklyn, which was...
