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Brooklyn : a novel
- Title
- Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
- Author
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- ©2009
- Supplementary Content
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Tóibín B76 2009 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 09-2179 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 262 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Psychological fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Access (note)
- Berg Collection is restricted access;
- Awards (note)
- Costa Book Award, 2009.
- Call Number
- JFD 09-2179
- ISBN
- 9781439138311
- 1439138311
- LCCN
- 2009001548
- OCLC
- 262428686
- Author
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author.
- Title
- Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- Copyright Date
- ©2009
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Access
- Berg Collection is restricted access; Request permission from holding division.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy inscribed by author to Steve [Stephen Crook] on t.p.Berg Collection copy donated by Stephen G. Crook, June 29, 2010.
- Awards
- Costa Book Award, 2009.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Crook, Stephen G., 1950- Former ownerCrook, Stephen G., 1950- Donor
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-2179Berg Coll Tóibín B76 2009