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Brooklyn: The iconic prequel to Long Island, a 'masterwork' Sunday Times (Eilis Lacey, 1)
Tóibín, Colm
Summary
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce.
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.
Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 272 pages · Paperback
- By Tóibín, Colm
Details
- ISBN: 9780241972700
- Author: Tóibín, Colm
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Publication date: 1 October 2015
- Condition: New
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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
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