Long Island by Colm Tóibín

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Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
Length: 304 Pages (Hardcover)
Audiobook: 9 Hours, 28 Minutes
Published: 2024
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About Long Island

Long Island by Colm Tóibín is published by Scribner (Simon & Schuster).

Long Island: Publisher’s Description

From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years.

Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.

One day, when Tony is at work an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does – and what she refuses to do – in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting and suspenseful.

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About Colm Tóibín

Long Island is written by Colm Tóibín.

Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. He is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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