| Title : | Brooklyn | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Colm Tóibín, Author | | Publisher: | Penguin | | Publication Date: | 2015 | | Pagination: | 251 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 97802419729700 | | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. | | Contents note: | Brooklyn is a novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín, first published in 2009.It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. |
Brooklyn [printed text] / Colm Tóibín, Author . - Random House, UK : Penguin, 2015 . - 251 p. ISSN : 97802419729700 | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. | | Contents note: | Brooklyn is a novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín, first published in 2009.It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. |
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