Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín is the award-winning author of five novels: The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize; The Heather Blazing, winner of the Encore Award for best second novel; The Story of the Night; The Blackwater Lightship, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and, most recently, The Master, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
His non-fiction includes Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border; Homage to Barcelona; The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe; and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. He is also the co-author...
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The Empty Family
Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8433-1 (0-7710-8433-1)
January 4, 2011 | $32.99
Written by Colm Toibin
Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8433-1 (0-7710-8433-1)
January 4, 2011 | $32.99
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The Empty Family
eBook | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8434-8 (0-7710-8434-X)
January 4, 2011 | $32.99
Written by Colm Toibin
eBook | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8434-8 (0-7710-8434-X)
January 4, 2011 | $32.99
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Brooklyn
eBook | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8540-6 (0-7710-8540-0)
April 6, 2010 | $19.99
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
Written by Colm Toibin
eBook | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8540-6 (0-7710-8540-0)
April 6, 2010 | $19.99
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It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
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Brooklyn
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8539-0 (0-7710-8539-7)
March 19, 2010 | $19.99
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8539-0 (0-7710-8539-7)
March 19, 2010 | $19.99
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It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
Brooklyn
Hardcover | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8536-9 (0-7710-8536-2)
May 5, 2009 | $32.99
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
Written by Colm Toibin
Hardcover | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8536-9 (0-7710-8536-2)
May 5, 2009 | $32.99
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It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
Mothers and Sons
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8532-1 (0-7710-8532-X)
January 8, 2008 | $21.00
From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8532-1 (0-7710-8532-X)
January 8, 2008 | $21.00
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From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts...
The Master
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8584-0 (0-7710-8584-2)
March 1, 2005 | $21.00
An international literary sensation, Colm Tóibín’s brilliant and profoundly moving novel tells the story of celebrated writer Henry James. While delving back into James’s past, the narrative’s present day takes place over the course of five significant years in the author’s life, during which he produced a sequence of major novels...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8584-0 (0-7710-8584-2)
March 1, 2005 | $21.00
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An international literary sensation, Colm Tóibín’s brilliant and profoundly moving novel tells the story of celebrated writer Henry James. While delving back into James’s past, the narrative’s present day takes place over the course of five significant years in the author’s life, during which he produced a sequence of major novels...
Love in a Dark Time
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Gay & Lesbian
978-0-7710-8580-2 (0-7710-8580-X)
October 24, 2002 | $24.99
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín appraises the life and work of nine highly influential writers and artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. These were figures for whom being gay seemed to come second in their public lives, either by choice or by necessity – but in their...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Gay & Lesbian
978-0-7710-8580-2 (0-7710-8580-X)
October 24, 2002 | $24.99
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In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín appraises the life and work of nine highly influential writers and artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. These were figures for whom being gay seemed to come second in their public lives, either by choice or by necessity – but in their...
The Story of the Night
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Gay; Fiction
978-0-7710-8565-9 (0-7710-8565-6)
December 18, 2001 | $18.99
The streets of Buenos Aires are empty at night, and people notice nothing because they have trained themselves not to see. This is Argentina in the time of the generals. Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his homosexuality from her and from the world. Stifled by a job he...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Gay; Fiction
978-0-7710-8565-9 (0-7710-8565-6)
December 18, 2001 | $18.99
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The streets of Buenos Aires are empty at night, and people notice nothing because they have trained themselves not to see. This is Argentina in the time of the generals. Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his homosexuality from her and from the world. Stifled by a job he...
The Blackwater Lightship
Trade Paperback | 280 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Gay
978-0-7710-8557-4 (0-7710-8557-5)
August 3, 2001 | $17.99
A deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen O’Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora, have come together in a crumbling old house along Ireland’s coastal southeast to tend Helen’s adored brother Declan, who...
Written by Colm Toibin
Trade Paperback | 280 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Gay
978-0-7710-8557-4 (0-7710-8557-5)
August 3, 2001 | $17.99
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A deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen O’Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora, have come together in a crumbling old house along Ireland’s coastal southeast to tend Helen’s adored brother Declan, who...
