Brooklyn: a novel

by Tóibín, Colm

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Title Statements

Full title :Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.

Summary

In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009
Edition:Fist Scribner trade paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Scribner
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009

Notes

Previously published: 2009.

The Physical Object

Description:262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781439148952, 1439148953, 9781439138311, 1439138311
oclc:on1101021107
LC Classification:PR6070.O455

Subjects

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. -… Fiction History Immigrantes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Ireland Ireland -- Fiction. -- History -- 20th … Irish Irish -- Fiction. -- United States Irlande -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- H… New York (State) -- New York United States Women immigrants Women immigrants -- Fiction