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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.
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...
20 lip 2024 · Reviewed by Ruth Latta. Long Island by Colm Tóibín Picador May 2024, Hardcover, 304 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1035029440 “You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby replies, “Why of course you can.”
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.
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...
23 sty 2024 · But that’s the chance Colm Tóibín has taken with “Long Island,” which reunites readers with Eilis Lacey some twenty years after the events of “Brooklyn.” Eilis and her husband Tony have built a contented life in Long Island, albeit one mired in the blandness and routine of middle age and parenthood.
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.
