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21. Mai 2024 · What’s lovely about Toibin’s novels set around the area where he comes from – The Heather Blazing, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, Nora Webster and now Long Island – is the way they ...
15. Mai 2024 · He visits it in “The Heather Blazing” (1992), “The Blackwater Lightship” (1999), “Brooklyn” (2009), “Nora Webster” (2014) and again in his latest, “Long Island.” In each book ...
Vor 20 Stunden · Dingle Lit will host an evening with acclaimed author Colm Tóibín to celebrate the launch of his latest book, ‘Long Island’. Broadcaster and musician, Philip King, will engage in conversation with Colm Tóibín at The Blasket Centre from 7pm. Following the success of ‘Brooklyn’, which was adapted into a film, ‘Long Island ...
26. Mai 2024 · Tóibín has set several novels in a fictional reimagination of his hometown, Enniscorthy, in County Wexford, Ireland. He visits it in “The Heather Blazing” (1992), “The Blackwater Lightship” (1999), “Brooklyn” (2009), “Nora Webster” (2014) and again in his latest, “Long Island.”.
26. Mai 2024 · Colm Toibin is one of the most widely read writers in contemporary Irish literature. He has published fiction and nonfiction, including, travelogues, essays, and criticism. His best-known works include the novels The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), and The Testament of Mary (2012).
21. Mai 2024 · The Blackwater Lightship $13 at Amazon $16 at Bookshop Tóibín’s fourth novel—a Booker Prize finalist—is a story about family secrets and fraught reunion set against the backdrop of the early 1990s HIV/AIDS crisis.
28. Mai 2024 · The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín. Amidst the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic, the resulting illness and death of many gay men forced their families to face facts about their lives which they’d been tactfully avoiding or denying.
