Long island.
Long island.
By
:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Publication Date
:
2024
Volume
:
bk. 2
Subject Term
:
Adultery -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Series
:
EILIS LACEY ;
Summary
:
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes TÔoibÔin’s novel so riveting. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than TÔoibÔin at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771012020
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Clarenville (BCE) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Conception Bay South (ACS) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Deer Lake (WDL) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Gambo (GDC) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Transit Request |
Gander (GGR) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Transit Request |
Holyrood (AHD) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Labrador City (LLC) M. Butt | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Being Held |
Lewisporte (GLE) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Mount Pearl (AMP) R. King | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Transit Request |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Being Held |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews (SJA) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
St. John's - Michael Donovan (SJB) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |
Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Being Held |
Torbay (ATO) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC TOI | bk. 2 | Checked out |