251 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2009 by Viking.
Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
4 stars
(1 review)
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
Subjects
- Irish
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Historical Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Manners and customs
Places
- New York (State)
- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Ireland
- Brooklyn