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Goldsboro Books

9781035029440

Long Island

Long Island

by Colm Toíbín

Publisher Picador

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'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The Times
'A masterful novel full of longing and regret… Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' Douglas Stuart

Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s 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.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet 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 marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.

Praise for Brooklyn:
'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork' - The Sunday Times

'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' - Zoë Heller, The Guardian, Books of the Year

'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' - Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year

'Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment' - Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times, Novel of the Year

About the Author

Colm Toíbín

Colm Toíbín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet.


Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017.


Tóibín's work explores several main lines: the depiction of Irish society, living abroad, the process of creativity, and the preservation of a personal identity, focusing especially on homosexual identities, but also on identity when confronted with loss. The "Wexford" novels, The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, use Enniscorthy, the town of Tóibín's birth, as narrative material, together with the history of Ireland and the death of his father. An autobiographical account and reflection on this episode can be found in the non-fiction book, The Sign of the Cross. In 2009, he published Brooklyn, a tale of a woman emigrating to Brooklyn from Enniscorthy.

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