Long Island Signed Independent Bookshop Edition
The long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:23rd May '24
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 23rd May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£20.00(9781035029440)
'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The Times
'A masterful novel full of longing and regret… Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' Douglas Stuart
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.
And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while -- Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple
You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page -- Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time -- Zoë Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year, on Brooklyn
A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life -- Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year, on Brooklyn
Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year, on Brooklyn
With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork * Sunday Times, on Brooklyn *
ISBN: 9781035029440-SIB
Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 30mm
Weight: 510g
304 pages