The Resource Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
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The item Brooklyn, Colm Toibin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Brooklyn
- Title
- Brooklyn
- Statement of responsibility
- Colm Toibin
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Awards note
- Costa Book Awards.
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Toibin, Colm
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women immigrants
- Irish
- Ireland
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Label
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670918126
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781743540107
- Label
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670918126
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781743540107
Subject
- Fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
Genre
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- trueCosta Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Award): Novel category
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