Brooklyn - Eilis Lacey Series

Marc Notes: Originally published: London: Viking, 2009.; 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. Publisher Marketing: Colm Toibin's "New York Times" bestselling novel--soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced "An Education"--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" ("Entertainment Weekly") about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" ("Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. Author "Colm Toibin...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ("Los Angeles Times"). "Written with mesmerizing power and skill" ("The Boston Globe"), "Brooklyn" is a "triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations" ("USA TODAY"). Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2009 pg. 48 (EAN 9781433291883, Compact Disc) Audio File 08/01/2009 pg. 45 (EAN 9781433291906, Compact Disc) Entertainment Weekly 03/19/2010 pg. 94 (EAN 9781439148952, Paperback) New York Times Book Review 04/11/2010 pg. 24 (EAN 9781439148952, Paperback) Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2009 pg. 61 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2009 pg. 98 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2009 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 03/23/2009 pg. 43 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2009 pg. 29 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 26 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 05/15/2009 pg. 61 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Time 05/18/2009 pg. 63 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) New York Review of Books  pg. 4 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 06/01/2009 pg. 87 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) London Review of Books 06/25/2009 pg. 11 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 47 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 12/14/2009 pg. 85 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 916 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 1058 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Toibin, Colm Colm Toibin is the author of seven novels, including "The Blackwater Lightship;" "The Master", winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; "Brooklyn", winner of the Costa Book Award; and "The Testament of Mary", as well as two story collections. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Toibin lives in Dublin and New York.