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The Resource Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn : a novel, Colm Tóibín

Label
Brooklyn : a novel
Title
Brooklyn
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Colm Tóibín
Creator
Subject
Genre
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
Instantiates
Publication
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
Publication
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Extent
262 p.
Isbn
9781439148952
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2009001548
System control number
(OCoLC)ocn262428686

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