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1) Brooklyn
2) Nora Webster
Award-winning novelist Tóibín brings to this stunning first collection of short works an acute understanding of human frailty and longing. These nine beautifully written, intensely intimate stories explore the psychological push and pull between mother and son. Each story is centered on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power in that relationship and changes the way mother and son perceive one another.
...Named by AudioFile magazine as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2005, this unforgettable audio performance represents the best of what the medium can do.
Colm Tóibín tells the story of Henry James, the famous novelist born into one of America's intellectual first families two decades before the Civil War, and who left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
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...9) Vinegar Hill
The winner of such prestigious honors as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Costa Book Award, Colm TOibIn has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Testament of Mary presents the mother of Jesus Christ in her later years. Embittered by her son's crucifixion, by the disciples she holds in contempt, and by her own failings, Mary casts a long-suffering figure—one that challenges more typical depictions of her.
12) The ambassadors
15) Nora Webster
Acclaimed author Colm TOibIn's novel The South was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. His provocative essay collection New Ways to Kill Your Mother offers a revealing look at how the works of Jane Austen, Tennessee Williams, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Mann, and other literary legends were dramatically impacted - often in unexpected ways - by their relationships with family members.
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs...
With his critically acclaimed fiction, author Colm ToIbIn has drawn favorable comparisons to Raymond Carver. Hailed as "the work of a supreme writer who only improves" (Times, UK), The Empty Family is a stunning short story collection that is "always intensely interesting and sometimes profoundly provocative" (Irish Independent). ". reconfirms his mastery of the short story . Likely to rank with the best story collections of the year."-Kirkus Reviews,
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