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Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey leaves her widowed mother and charismatic sister behind in Ireland and heads for Brooklyn, where she finds a sort of happiness, but tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and she finds herself facing an impossible decision.
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- ISBN: 9780771085406 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0771085400 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
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- Random House, Inc.
Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm TóibÃn's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power.
At the centre of Colm TóibÃn's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, 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, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new lifeâuntil she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
