Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
By: Tóibín, Colm.
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2009Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.Description: 262 p.; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781439138311 (trade); 1439138311 (trade); 9781439148952 (pbk.); 1439148953.Subject(s): Irish -- United States -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Irish Americans -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | Love storiesGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Love stories.DDC classification: 823/.914 | [Fic] Summary: Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.
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Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.
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