Long Island Long Island

Publisher Description

When an Irishman knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island, the news he brings looks set to jeopardize the stability of the family life she and her husband Tony have built together. The arrival of this stranger will send Eilis back to Ireland and to the people she had left behind twenty years earlier. Did she make the wrong choice leaving? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Praise for Long Island

'Wonderful' Elizabeth Strout

'Intensely moving' Douglas Stuart

'Magnificent' The Times

'The work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes' The Guardian

'Eilis from Brooklyn is thoroughly grownup now. She's such a living creation: distinctive, guarded, forceful, watchful' The Observer

'Tóibín dramatizes secrecy and its consequences better than almost any other contemporary novelist' The Sunday Times

'Colm Tóibín's rich talents as a novelist need no further enumerating. You just have to read everything he writes' The New Statesman

'Heartbreaking, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The Times

'In Long Island, Colm Tóibín has finally given us a follow-up to Brooklyn . . . I read it in one sitting, thrilled to be back with the characters that captivated me last time' The Observer

'An entrancing follow-up to Brooklyn, a moving coming-of-age story and a portrait of the plucky immigrants who fuelled America's post-war boom' The Economist

'Somehow Tóibín makes a book like this - sparely written, elliptical, ambiguous - as immersive as the richly
detailed biographical novels that he has written in recent years. He is a magician' TLS

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2024
30 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan Australia
SELLER
Macmillan Publishers Australia and Pan Macmillan Australia
SIZE
6
MB

Customer Reviews

Hazza 313 ,

Very well written

Makes you feel like you’re right there in Ireland

RhonL ,

Not believable

Colm Toibin should get some women to read his drafts and explain things about women if he is going to write a book from a woman’s perspective, for example how a woman is likely to feel about the news of her husband’s infidelity, how likely a mature woman is to buy an expensive wedding dress which is the first one she has even looked at, and how likely a woman is to think her mother will be thrilled to have new white goods delivered that she has had no say about. And so on. Could not keep reading this book which was boringly written and so often off-key about the main characters

Maddyjv ,

Fascinating gripping emotional roller coaster

Loved the depth of characters, scenes, portrayals of family life and cultures

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