Books
by Colm Toibin
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Long Island |
The sequel to 'Brooklyn' finds the heroine 20 years later living in the suffocating embrace of her husband's Italian family and contemplating leaving him. A holiday back in Ireland rekindles an old love with a man himself now entangled in a new relationship. Secrecy is a dangerous element in the mix as the characters face up to realities and try to make plans. The clarity with which the characters and their conflicting loyalties are depicted and the way in which, in middle age, complications are multiplied, gives the story force as does the portrayal of restrictive small town Irish life. A story well told by a master novelist.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 117 Summer 2025) |
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