LONG ISLAND. By Colm Toibin. Scribner. 294 pages. $28. It was Irish playwright Oscar Wilde who famously said, “The English came and took our lands and turned them into barren wastes. We took their ...
Sometimes a literary character's hold on its author (and readers!) is too strong to ignore. While many sequels feel like attempts to milk a cash cow, others, like Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge ...
Tóibín's latest, a sequel to his 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is a devastating portrait of an Irish immigrant whose Italian American husband is expecting a baby with another woman. This is FRESH AIR.
The Irish author Colm Tóibín will come to North Carolina for the very first time this month on a tour for his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to 2009’s beloved blockbuster Brooklyn. The first of ...
On this St. Patrick's Day, I want to revisit some of my favorite Irish fiction. Colm Toibin's latest novel opens with a heartbreaker of a dilemma. His main character, Eilis Lacey, opens her front door ...
Colm Toibin's new novel opens with a heartbreaker of a dilemma. His main character, Eilis Lacey, opens her front door to a stranger who accuses Eilis' husband of having an affair with his wife, an ...
Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel “Brooklyn” told the story of a meek young Irishwoman, Eilis Lacey, who emigrates to New York in the 1950s out of a sense of familial obligation and slowly, diligently begins ...
In Colm Tóibín’s indelibly moving 2009 novel, “Brooklyn,” set in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey emigrates from her economically depressed Irish town of Enniscorthy to New York, searching for better prospects.
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