The Resource Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009
- Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- Isbn
- 9781501106477
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel
- Title
- Brooklyn
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Colm Tóibín
- Subject
-
- trueLove stories
- Love stories
- Psychological fiction
- trueSocial isolation
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- trueBrooklyn, New York City -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Psychological fiction
- Women immigrants
- Bildungsromans
- Irish
- trueIreland -- History -- 20th century
- trueImmigration and emigration
- Bildungsromans
- trueIrish in the United States
- trueWomen immigrants
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- United States
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- Romance fiction
- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
- trueBooks to movies
- Ireland
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Summary
- Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable "merchant of Italian origin". Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new.
- Award
-
- Costa Novel Award, 2009.
- ALA Notable Book, 2010.
- Awards note
- Winner of Costa Book Award, 2009.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 304563
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6070.O455
- LC item number
- B76 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009
- Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 5750823
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9781501106477
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn894747250
- (OCoLC)894747250
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009
- Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 5750823
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9781501106477
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn894747250
- (OCoLC)894747250
Subject
- 1900-1999
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- trueBooks to movies
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueBrooklyn, New York City -- History -- 20th century
- Fiction
- History
- trueImmigration and emigration
- Ireland
- trueIreland -- History -- 20th century
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Irish
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- trueIrish in the United States
- trueLove stories
- Love stories
- New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- Romance fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueSocial isolation
- United States
- Women immigrants
- trueWomen immigrants
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
Genre
- Bildungsromans
- trueBooks to movies
- Fiction
- trueHistory
- trueLove stories
- truePsychological fiction
- Romance fiction
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2010
- trueCosta Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Award): Novel category
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