- Title:
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Long Island
- Written by:
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Colm Tóibín
- Read by:
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Jessie Buckley
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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9 hours 32 minutes
- Published:
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July 28 2024
- Available Date:
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July 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038671141
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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New York Times bestselling author
Award winning author
Irish Author
A spectacularly moving and intense tale of secrecy, misunderstanding and love – the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s most popular work 20 years later.
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring 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 40s 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 does in the wake of this shattering news is at the heart of one of Tóibín's most riveting and emotional novels to date.
'Quietly devastating … Tóibín is brilliant at tallying the weight of what goes unsaid between people…and at using quotidian situations to illuminate longing as a universal and often-inescapable aspect of the human condition. Tóibín’s mastery is on full display here.'
Publishers Weekly, starred review
'You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint ...'
Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain
'Tóibín writes with unparalleled fluidity and grace. Each character is intricately drawn with psychological acuity, emerging as fully, almost achingly human.'
Booklist, starred review
'An acclaimed novelist revisits the central characters of his best-known work … Eilis’ fate is determined in a plot twist worthy of Edith Wharton …the author is a master of quiet, restrained prose, calmly observing the mores and mindsets of provincial Ireland, not much changed from the 1950s. A moving portrait of rueful middle age and the failure to connect.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred review