Brooklyn /
Toibin, Colm, 1955-,
Brooklyn / Colm Toibin. - Picador edition. - 252 pages ; 20 cm.
"Winner of the 2009 Costa Novel award, now a major motion picture" --Cover.
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood.
Costa Award Winner - 2009.
9781743540107 : 1743540108 (pbk.)
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Irish--United States--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Brooklyn / Colm Toibin. - Picador edition. - 252 pages ; 20 cm.
"Winner of the 2009 Costa Novel award, now a major motion picture" --Cover.
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood.
Costa Award Winner - 2009.
9781743540107 : 1743540108 (pbk.)
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Irish--United States--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.