Long Island (eilis Lacey Book 2)
By (author) Colm Toibin
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By (author) Colm Toibin
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The unputdownable, searing love story of the summer and instant Sunday Times bestseller, Long Island is the sequel to Colm Tóibín''s beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.
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Long Island is the best new novel I’ve read in years – and it’s as persuasive an argument in defence of the unique capability of the novel form as you could ever hope to find
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You don''t have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page
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A brilliant novel . . . it is beautifully crafted and makes for a riveting, wonderful read
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Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best
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Morally and psychologically meaty . . . Engrossing, truthful and humane, [Long Island] is a magnificent achievement
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His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven''t wanted to hug this many characters in a while
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A masterful and uproariously entertaining book, glittering with all of Toibin''s intelligence and humane wit, as compelling, passionate and quietly enigmatic as its unforgettable protagonist Eilis Lacey
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Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for . . . [Long Island is] the work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes.
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Colm Tóibín''s heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is the rare instance in which a sequel is every bit as good as the original
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Exquisitely drawn
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Brooklyn and Long Island . . . capture the decency and ordinariness of the characters as well as the deep emotional ruptures that drive them toward disorder. The confrontations between these people, so long delayed, feel momentous and h
Short description/annotation:
The unputdownable, searing love story of the summer and instant Sunday Times bestseller, Long Island is the sequel to Colm Tóibín''s beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.
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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
Review quote:
Long Island is the best new novel I’ve read in years – and it’s as persuasive an argument in defence of the unique capability of the novel form as you could ever hope to find
Review quote:
You don''t have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page
Review quote:
A brilliant novel . . . it is beautifully crafted and makes for a riveting, wonderful read
Review quote:
Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best
Review quote:
Morally and psychologically meaty . . . Engrossing, truthful and humane, [Long Island] is a magnificent achievement
Review quote:
His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven''t wanted to hug this many characters in a while
Review quote:
A masterful and uproariously entertaining book, glittering with all of Toibin''s intelligence and humane wit, as compelling, passionate and quietly enigmatic as its unforgettable protagonist Eilis Lacey
Review quote:
Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for . . . [Long Island is] the work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes.
Review quote:
Colm Tóibín''s heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is the rare instance in which a sequel is every bit as good as the original
Review quote:
Exquisitely drawn
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Brooklyn and Long Island . . . capture the decency and ordinariness of the characters as well as the deep emotional ruptures that drive them toward disorder. The confrontations between these people, so long delayed, feel momentous and h
