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7 maj 2024 · “Long Island” is both a sequel to “Brooklyn” and a companion to “Nora Webster,” Tóibín’s 2014 novel — his masterpiece, in my opinion — about another Enniscorthy woman’s ...
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 ...
3 maj 2024 · A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world’s finest writers. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents.
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.”
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...
14 maj 2024 · Depending on traffic, it takes about an hour to drive from Brooklyn to Lindenhurst, Long Island, the suburban hamlet in which Colm Tóibín opens his latest, irresistible page-turner.
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. It won the Costa Novel Award and was made into an Oscar- and Bafta-nominated film ...
