Colm Tóibín | Long Island: A Novel

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“His generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín is the author of an impressive list of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and criticism. His novels The Master, The Testament of Mary, and Brooklyn were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the last was adapted into a popular BAFTA Award-winning film of the same name. The Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, Tóibín earned an Irish PEN Award and was named the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland, among scores of other honors. Set 20 years after the events of the international bestseller Brooklyn, Long Island finds the enigmatic émigré protagonist of that book alone in her marriage and facing the travails of middle age and unfulfilled dreams.
Recorded May 13, 2024
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[@keymeter1917]

He's such a weirdo. 🤭Just eccentric and lovely. I like the way he tells his own literature.......❤️

[@TheBrendacusack]

For all his charming self-deprecation and 'weaponised helplessness' Tóibín is on top form here, conjuring stories out of the ether with the skill of a magician and the precision of a word-surgeon. Transported to Enniscorthy, can't you just smell the hot vinegary air wafting from the local chip shop? I may not have any immediate travel plans but I'll definitely be reading Long Island.

[@paulburns4715]

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