The Resource Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
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The item Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens the promise of her future
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Extent
- 262 p.
- Isbn
- 9781439148952
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel
- Title
- Brooklyn
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Colm Tóibín
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens the promise of her future
- Awards note
- Costa Book award (best novel), 2009.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tóibín, Colm
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6070.O455
- LC item number
- B76 2009
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Irish
- Women immigrants
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Ireland
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Link
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Extent
- 262 p.
- Isbn
- 9781439148952
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2009001548
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn262428686
- Label
- Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Link
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Extent
- 262 p.
- Isbn
- 9781439148952
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2009001548
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn262428686
Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Psychological fiction
- 1900 - 1999
- Psychological fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Bildungsromans
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