Long Island
Author(s): Colm Tóibín
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents.
It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country.
One day, an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but will leave it with her.
Eilis has choices to make, and what she chooses to do after this shattering news make this one of Toibin's most riveting and emotional novels to date.
A follow-up to Brooklyn.
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A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.
"I was captivated. A wonderful page-turner to start your summer reading.” —Oprah Winfrey
“A brilliant novel. Beautifully crafted… makes for a riveting, wonderful read.” —Elizabeth Strout, The Guardian
“Eilis is an interesting and vivid character because she manages to make her destiny her choice... In her own mind, and in the eyes of sympathetic readers, she is free.” —New York Times Book Review
“Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental… Tóibín uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire.” —The New Yorker
“Stunning.” —People
"Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what’s next.” —Los Angeles Times
“Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered.” —Wall Street Journal
"Tóibín has created a novel not to be missed.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Rich and doubly suspenseful… Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what’s next.” —Los Angeles Times
Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Toibin was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. Long Island is his eleventh novel.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan Australia
- : Picador Australia
- : 0.3
- : 29 March 2024
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Colm Tóibín
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 304
- : FA
