Tóibín, Colm,  1955- <br/><br/>
Brooklyn :  a novel / 
Colm Tóibín. 
 - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. 
 - New York :  Scribner,  2009. 
 - 262 p.;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781439138311 (trade) 1439138311 (trade) 9781439148952 (pbk.) 1439148953 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009001548 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Irish--United States--Fiction.<br/>Women immigrants--Fiction.<br/>Irish Americans--Fiction.<br/>Women immigrants--Fiction.<br/>Psychological fiction.<br/>Love stories.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.<br/>Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.<br/>Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--Fiction.<br/>Ireland--History--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.<br/>Love stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6070.O455  / B76 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.914  [Fic]