Long Island / by Colm Tóibín.
By: Tóibín, Colm [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Picador, 2025Copyright date: ©2024Description: 287 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781035029464 (paperback).Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Secrecy -- FictionDDC classification: 823.914 TOI Summary: "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. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. One day, 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 will leave it with her. Eilis has choices to make, and what she chooses to do after this shattering news make this one of Toibin's most riveting and emotional novels to date."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The love story of the century
Long Island by Colm Tóibín, the author of Brooklyn , is his 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.
The instant Sunday Times bestseller and the sequel to Brooklyn
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island. In that moment, everything changes. 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 all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
'Riveting' Elizabeth Strout
' Masterful' Douglas Stuart
'Wonderful' Oprah Winfrey
'Entrancing' The Economist
'Magnificent' The Times
'Exquisite' New York Times
'Gorgeous' The Independent
'Dazzling' The Financial Times
'A masterclass' The Guardian
* Long Island was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27/5/24
"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. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. One day, 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 will leave it with her. Eilis has choices to make, and what she chooses to do after this shattering news make this one of Toibin's most riveting and emotional novels to date."-- Provided by publisher.