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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

·3.68·146,612 Ratings
“ No amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future. ” ― Anonymous
Authors' Books
  • Finbar's Hotel

    1999·
    ·3.41·497 Ratings
    "Devised and edited" by Dermot Bolger, Finbar's Hotel pools the efforts of seven acclaimed Irish novelists -- Joseph O'Connor, Anne Enright, Colm Toíbín, Roddy Doyle, Jennifer Johnston, Hugo Hamilton, and Bolger himself -- in a humorous and suspenseful
  • The New York Stories of Henry James

    2006·
    ·4.04·138 Ratings
    Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker
  • The Return

    2004·
    ·3.68·141 Ratings
    An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. When successful businessman Alvan Hervey begins his daily journey back from the city,
  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006

    2006·
    ·3.76·163 Ratings
    The 20 short stories in this collection were chosen by series editor Furman in consultation with jurors Kevin Brockmeier, Francine Prose, and Colm Toibin. The stories range in style from the gritty noir of David Means' "Sault Ste. Marie" to the mesmerizin
  • Mothers and Sons

    2007·
    ·3.78·1,346 Ratings
    Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and
  • The South

    1992·
    ·3.59·705 Ratings
    Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Katherine Proctor who "flees husband, child and County Wexford (Ireland) for Spain. She, a Catalan lover, and another Irish emigre, painters all, fashion new worlds in their work while fighting past worlds in their l
  • Homage to Barcelona

    1990·
    ·3.83·419 Ratings
    This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding,
  • The Blackwater Lightship

    2005·
    ·3.85·3,993 Ratings
    It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histor
  • Love in a Dark Time: and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

    2004·
    ·3.79·313 Ratings
    Colm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions throu
  • The Go-Between

    2002·
    ·3.94·5,654 Ratings
    "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older si
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