| Title | : | Brooklyn |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (373 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501106473 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-08 |
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Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.
“One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.
Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threa
Editorial : Best of the Month, May 2009: Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose. Eilis's determination to embrace the spirit of the journey despite her trepidation--especially on behalf of Rose, who has sacrificed her own chance of leaving--makes a bittersweet center for Brooklyn. Colm Tóibín's spare portrayal of this contemplative girl is achingly lovely, and every sentence rings with truth. Readers will find themselves swept across the Atlantic with Eilis to a boarding house in Brooklyn where she painstakingly adapts to a new life, reinventing herself and her surroundings in the letters she writes home. Just as she begins to settle in with the help of a new love, tragedy calls her home to Enniscorthy, and her separate lives suddenly and painfully merge
Arielle is a social butterfly while, Rosa is an introvert.to the extreme. However, coming from an actual participant, who was fully aware of his own government's indirect complicity in causing the demise of the Spanish Second Republic, it is worth reading.
I was touched by a poem written by Rubin following the death of a comrade at arms, who he was unable to save in the medic tent. Her neighbor offers her a part-time job, and she doesn't want to take it, but she does. A must read for any serious student of the plight of agriculture as we "knew" it in New England.. She is drawn to a Native American store where she encounters an old Indian woman who tells her she will show her where she can begin her journey to peace. I was caught up with the characters, and it is a really great read when you just want to 'get away from modern life' and lose yourself in a more gentle period. It wasn't an enjoyable read. Start a conversation with Sincerely, Your Prostate, a humorous icebreaker
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