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Brooklyn : a novel

Summary: 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: remote
    1 online resource (262 pages)
  • Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2009]

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Subject: Irish -- United States -- Fiction
Women immigrants -- Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Irish
Women immigrants
Ireland
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
United States
Genre: Fiction.
History.
Electronic books.

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COLM TÓIBÍN is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of many novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and The Testament of Mary, all three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize. The Master also won the International Dublin Literary Award, Le Prix du meilleur livre etranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Novel Award, and finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award, was made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2015. Nora Webster was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He is also the author of many short stories and works of non-fiction. He mainly lives in Dublin, Ireland.

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